[BioPython] Adding startswith and endswith methods to the Seq object
Martin MOKREJŠ
mmokrejs at ribosome.natur.cuni.cz
Mon Apr 13 14:44:14 UTC 2009
Hi Peter,
Peter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've filed enhancement bug 2809 with a patch to add startswith and
> endswith methods to the Seq object,
> http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2809
>
> e.g. I want to be able to do this:
>
> primer = "TGACCTGAAAAGAC"
> crop = len(primer)
> #record is a SeqRecord object
> if record.seq.startswith(primer) :
> record = record[crop:]
>
>
> Does this seem like a sensible addition to the Seq object? It is
> consistent with making the Seq object more like a python string.
Yes, I like this new approach.
Martin
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