[Biopython-dev] EMBOSS eprimer3 parser

[Peter]

Hi all,

Who on the dev list makes heavy use of the EMBOSS eprimer3 parser in
Biopython? I'd like someone to look over Leighton's proposed enhancements
to this code: http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2968

There are two main issues. First, the current code doesn't cope with multiple
primer sets (so Leighton introduces read/parse functions in line with other
modules for single or multiple sets of primers). This seems entirely sensible
to me, and worthwhile in itself.

Second, Leighton makes some changes to the primer record objects.
I'm not so sure about the necessity here, even if it is backwards
compatible, but I haven't really used this code. What do the rest of
you think?

Peter