[Biopython-dev] [BioPython] about the SeqRecord slicing

Jose Blanca jblanca at btc.upv.es
Thu Mar 26 11:14:13 EDT 2009


On Thursday 26 March 2009 16:07:33 Peter wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Jose Blanca <jblanca at btc.upv.es> wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 March 2009 13:05:25 Peter wrote:

> However, if I understand you, when pulling a column from a SeqRecord
> based alignment in addition to the column's sequence you'd like the get the
> per-letter-annotations as well.  This assumes that all the SeqRecord
> objects in the alignment have the same per-letter-annotation present - some
> might have quality and others might not!  But how would you want to store
> this new column object?  Using a string or a Seq doesn't support any
> annotation - you *could* use a SeqRecord with no id, name, description,
> features, annotation - just a sequence and any common
> per-letter-annotation.  Is this what you had in mind?
Yes, that's exactly what I have in mind. Do you see any problem with that 
approach?

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