[Biopython-dev] Reading sequences: FormatIO, SeqIO, etc

[Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon]

Marc Colosimo wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Peter (BioPython Dev) wrote:
>> In the short term maybe we should just replace the internals of the
>> current Bio.Fasta module with a pure python implementation like  
>> that in
>> Bio.SeqIO.FASTA - good idea?  Bad idea?
> 
> I would keep them separate but change the documentation on the how-to  
> site to point to using the Bio.SeqIO.FASTA since that is where I  
> think we want people to start going. The code change to Bio.Fasta  
> should be to add a depreciation warning.

I agree with Marc here. No need to modify Bio.Fasta if it's on its way out.

--Michiel.

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Michiel de Hoon
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