[Biopython] clustal header

[Peter Cock]

On Sunday, October 9, 2011, amir chaouki <chaouki.amir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> i want to to do a multiple sequence alignment with the clustalw method but
i
> keep getting this error:  ", ".join(known_headers)))
> ValueError: a is not a known CLUSTAL header: CLUSTAL, PROBCONS, MUSCLE
>
> my sequence file contains this >  as headers for every sequence name, so
> what are the compatible headers?

Hi Amir,

That error message can come from trying to parse a non-clustal file as if it
were a clustal file. Perhaps you tried to parse a fasta file?

If you showed the code that caused this message, it would be easier to help
you,

Peter