[BioPython] Large GenBank files: impossible to handle?

[Sebastian Bassi]

On 12/30/05, Hans Meier <biopyte at yahoo.de> wrote:
>  I tried to handle a .gbk file of 4,7MB in size
>  with a "700MHz, Pentium III, 256 MB RAM"-box.
...
>  With the Biopython tools, is it possible to handle
>  .gbk files of about 5MB in a reasonable time with
>  a low- to middle-class desktop computer? If so, how?

Your computer is not underpowered and the file is not so large, so it
should not hangup. Could you provide code for us to check it? (and the
datafile, you should upload it to a ftp/web server if the data is
public).


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