[Biopython-dev] GSoC Weekly Update: PhyloXML for Biopython

[Peter]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Eric Talevich<eric.talevich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The new SeqRecord chapter is very informative -- I was originally just
> looking at the wiki and epydoc pages.

I can't take all the credit - a good chunk of it was reused from the "Advanced"
chapter. Do let me know if you spot any typos. Did you think it makes sense
to have this before the SeqIO chapter (as it is now), or afterwards? Right
now the SeqRecord chapter uses SeqIO in order to load some complex
records to show how they are represented - so you could put them in either
order.

> Still unclear: why doesn't the SeqRecord constructor take annotations
> as an optional argument? Should it?

I don't know why it doesn't (its a historical design choice before by time),
do you think it would actually be more useful? Maybe Brad can comment?

P.S. See also related Bug 2841
http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2841

Peter