[BioPython] Hello and congrats on the marriage of python with biology

[Jeffrey Chang]

Hi Chris,

Welcome to biopython!  There's certainly a lot of code to be written, so
we're accepting contributions.  There's already some code in there to
query Entrez for medline entries.  Perhaps your sequence retrieval code
could be merged into that.

Do you have access to CVS?  If so, please download a copy of the
repository (instructions at http://cvs.biopython.org/) and take a browse
around.  The code is still under heavy development, though, and stability
varies across files.

There's also a README file in there that outlines things that will need to
be done before a 0.1-alpha release.

Jeff



On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Chris Fenton wrote:

> Firstly, I am new to the list, so hello.
> Secondly, I am rather new to python, but am convinced it is a better
> language for large co-op projects than perl (do not misunderstand I like
> perl).
> Thirdly, I am no coding guru, but am willing to help.
> 
> I am unsure as to what has been done already done as far as a code base
> but I reckon if biopython is to grow it is dependent on people donating
> code.
> I am polishing some simple python code that allows users to download
> sequences from the net (Entrez site):
> 
> Specify (query, db, max display) to retrieve a list of uid numbers,
> retrieve records (uid, format) and save to file (file).
> 
> I do not know if you guys have similar code, or if this could help.
> If not  is there something the needs to be done (testing or porting some
> perl to python) I will certainly give it a try.
> At the moment I am looking at 'pythonizing'Aceperl but again unsure if I
> has not already been done.
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