[Biopython-dev] Numpy conversion

[Michiel de Hoon]

> I've not used it myself, but it sounds handy.  Michiel,
> does this overlap at all with your clustering module?

No, it doesn't. Bio.Cluster contains unsupervised clustering methods only. The k-nearest neighbors in Bio.kNN is a supervised learning method.

--Michiel.

--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Biopython-dev] Numpy conversion
> To: mjldehoon at yahoo.com
> Cc: biopython-dev at biopython.org
> Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 10:29 AM
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Michiel de Hoon
> <mjldehoon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I am now looking at the pure-python modules that make
> use of Numerical Python / NumPy.
> > Bio.kNN is one of them; this also happens to be the
> only module that imports Bio.distance,
> > which also depends on NumPy.
> >
> > What I am not sure about is the usage of Bio.kNN. A
> quick google search didn't reveal much,
> > suggesting that it is not widely used. Bio.kNN
> currently is not documented in the tutorial, but
> > the code itself is reasonably well documented.
> >
> > How do you guys feel about this module? Should we keep
> it?
> >
> 
> I've not used it myself, but it sounds handy.  Michiel,
> does this
> overlap at all with your clustering module?
> 
> Peter