[Biopython-dev] Sequences and simple plots

[Leighton Pritchard]

On 15/10/2008 15:09, "Peter" <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Leighton Pritchard wrote:
>> 
>> On 15/10/2008 12:41, Peter wrote:
>> 
>>> Using pylab.scatter is still a bit slow, but it does actually work.  I
>>> was wondering if this dot-plot code were to use reportlab instead,
>>> would it make a sensible addition to the Bio.Graphics module?
>> 
>> I'd welcome it as an addition there.  Maybe there are other small functions
>> of convenience that might find a home there?  A graphical rendering of a
>> BLAST record, for example...
> 
> Sequence logos are another obvious little addition.

Also eyecharts (like sequence logos, but in a grid), and graphical rendering
of HMMs as state diagrams could be useful.

There's some Python code for rendering logos at
http://code.google.com/p/weblogo/ - maybe they'd like to contribute, or the
code could be adapted?


L.

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