[Biopython-dev] [Biopython] Alignment object

[Brad Chapman]

Peter and Eric;
[Moving this over to biopython-dev and changing the subject]

> > Here's +1 for Python counting. That would match SeqFeature and the
> > ProteinDomain class in Bio.Tree.PhyloXML.
> >
> > While we're on this topic -- I have some unpublished code for rendering an
> > alignment object in HTML, with plans for colorization, conservation
> > profiles, etc. I rolled my own alignment class since the one in
> > Bio.Align.Generic didn't have the attributes (start, end, selected columns)
> > for a particular file format I was parsing. It's not urgent, but at some
> > point could you publish your plans for the Alignment classes so I (and
> > probably others) can stay/become compatible?
> 
> My rough work in progress in on github - at the moment I'm still trying
> things out, and don't assume anything is set in stone. If you want to
> have a play with this code, feedback is very welcome - probably best
> on the dev list rather than here. See:
> 
> http://github.com/peterjc/biopython/tree/seqrecords
> 
> (a lot of the alignment things I want to support, like slicing and adding
> are very closely linked to doing the same operations to SeqRecords)
> 
> Peter
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