[Biopython-dev] SearchIO HSP indexing

[Colin Archer]

Interesting commentary from Edsger Dijkstra as well:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

if possible, I would definitely add some of these links to either the
tutorial or the code

Colin


On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com> wrote:

>
> Colin;
>
> >> I'm curious about the benefits of having these values in Python string
> >> slicing format? I haven't come across this very often, I'm used to
> seeing
> >> values systematically zero or one-based.
>
> To clarify further in addition to Peter's response, the 0-based
> half-open and 1-based closed systems are the two systems you're
> referring to. Python, and most programming languages, use the 0-based
> half open indexing approach which is what SearchIO is converting to.
> Aaron has a nice response on BioStars while explains the differences in
> more details:
>
> http://www.biostars.org/p/6373/#6377
>
> Brad
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