[BioPython] How to extract the DNA string from the sequence object ?

[Iddo Friedberg]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Quoc-Dien Trinh wrote:

: Hello,
:
: I'm trying to extract the DNA string (ex:
: 'AGACATACAGAT') from the sequence object, because I
: can't do a "FIND" on the object. How could I do that?

The .data attribute returns a string value

So my_sequence.data.find('CAT') should return 3


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