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

[Giles Velarde]

GFF3? You can create features in the first part, add any metadata you  
like them in the 9th column, and have FASTA blocks at the bottom.

There's nothing stopping you having 1 feature per FASTA block, I think.

Best, Giles.


On 7 Sep 2011, at 00:17, Peter Cock wrote:

> 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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