[Biopython-dev] EMBOSS eprimer3 parser

[Peter]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

I've made changes on github to do this based on Leighton's code.

> 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?

I expect to doing some work with eprimer3 this month, so will feel I
can make a more informed choice later.

Peter