[Biopython-dev] Numpy conversion

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Sep 17 14:29:35 UTC 2008


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



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