[Biopython] Deprecating Bio.InterPro
Peter
biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Jul 6 13:40:51 UTC 2010
Hi all,
Another old module which hasn't been updated for some time is Bio.InterPro,
a parser for the HTML (webpages) at the EBI, e.g.
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/IEntry?ac=IPR001064
The parser doesn't work with the current website, and also uses a Python
library called sgmllib which was deprecated as of Python 2.6. Website
parsers are in general a bad idea because the tend to need a lot of work
to keep up to date. Perhaps in this case there are suitable plain text files
on the FTP site which might be used?
Unless anyone has a good reason not to, we are going to deprecate the
Bio.IntrerPro module in the next release of Biopython.
Peter
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