[Biopython-dev] [BioPython] BioPythonGUI: Graphical User Interface for BioPython

[Wubin Qu]

Hi Peter,

Thans for your reply.

My goal is simple: Programs with GUI are easily to use. BioPython with GUI
will facilitate people.

The next module is: BlastParserGUI. I think it will be useful.

Yes, SeqGUI is built on SeqGui.py. And I learn a lot from SeqGui.py. It
inspires me to build other modules. I mentioned this
here<http://biopythongui.blogspot.com/2008/08/gui-seq.html>
.
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Best regards,

Wubin Qu



2008/9/8 Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Wubin Qu <quwubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I started a new project named BioPythonGUI for a few of days.
>
> Hello Wubin Qu,
>
> > BioPythonGUI is a Graphical User Interface of BioPython.
>
> I'm uncomfortable about the name BioPythonGUI, as this to me implies
> it is part of Biopython (whereas is it currently just a third party
> project built on top of Biopython).  What do other people think?
>
> > However, it's not everyone can use the BioPython, especially ones who do
> not
> > know much about the programming. How can you expect a professor who never
> > known about any programming to use BioPython to parse the BLAST report
> file?
> > This is the problem which the BioPythonGUI would solve. I started the
> > project with the goal "Everyone can use BioPython with BioPythonGUI".
>
> I don't really understand your goal.  How would a non-programming
> professor use your program to parse a BLAST report file?  The NCBI
> already try and make the HTML and plain text output useful to
> non-programmers and from looking at the screenshots I don't see how
> your tool would help.
>
> > Until now, there are two modules SeqGUI and BlastGUI are available in
> > BioPythonGUI. I would greatly appreciate if you use BioPythonGUI and send
> me
> > the feedback.
>
> I see your module SeqGUI builds on the SeqGui.py in BioPython (in the
> scripts directory).  It might make sense to include your improvements
> to this code as part of Biopython.  I haven't looked at your code yet,
> so I don't know how much you've changed things.
>
> It is nice to be able to be able to translate, transcribe, reverse
> complement etc in a GUI, but personally I don't see the point or
> writing a little application just for this.  Also, there are probably
> many many existing tools out there that already offer this
> functionality.  However, I am happy writing code, so I am not in your
> target audience.
>
> Regarding your BlastGUI idea, I can see that a GUI for standalone
> blast is nicer than the command line for some people.  However, I
> don't see how this is more useful than running a local blast web
> server (something the NCBI already provides).
>
> Sorry for being so negative,
>
> Peter
>