[BioPython] UniGene parser

Jeffrey Chang jchang@smi.stanford.edu
Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:50:50 -0700


If I had to choose one of the two formats, flat or html, I would favor
having parsers for the flat files.  The days of pulling down HTML
files and scraping them for content are numbered...

Jeff


On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:40:41PM -0700, Cayte wrote:
> > It's appropriate for biopython, which is used in many different types
> > of environments.  We already have code for iterating, parsing, and
> > indexing MEDLINE (40Gb), GenBank (25+Gb), etc...  I think Peter's
> > request to handle the flat text files directly from NCBI is
> > reasonable.
> > 
> Is just the flat file needed or both the flat and unigene as html parsers?
> 
>                                 Cayte