[Biopython] Any way to add accessible meta-data/comments to FASTA files?

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Tue Sep 6 23:17:03 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, September 6, 2011, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wikipedia says the FASTA format can deal with ; as a comment
> character, software ignoring those lines. Is there a way to get to
> such comments from bioPython?

No, in practice very few if any tools accept such comment
lines, so writing them would be counter productive.

Peter



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