[Biopython] Generator expression for SeqIO

Willis, Jordan R jordan.r.willis at Vanderbilt.Edu
Wed Dec 7 08:49:06 UTC 2011


Does the input.txt have fasta sequences in it and you want to write them to a file? This is what it looks like.

from Bio import SeqIO as sio

generator = sio.read('input.txt','fasta')


for i in generator:
print i.header
print i.seq

will give you header and sequence. You could of course write this to a file, but you seem to be inputting a fasta file just to write out another one.




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On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Peter Cock wrote:

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Mic <mictadlo at gmail.com<mailto:mictadlo at gmail.com>> wrote:
No worries is was perfect.

I have the following code and I do not know how to combine the *header* and
*seq* variables from the '*with*' statement with generator expression?

from Bio import SeqIO
from Bio.SeqRecord import SeqRecord
from Bio.Seq import Seq
from pprint import pprint

if __name__ == '__main__':

   *with* open('input.txt') as f:
       for line in f:
           try:
               splited_line = line.split('\t')

               *header* = splited_line[0] +'_'+ splited_line[2]
               *seq* = splited_line[3]
           except IndexError:
               continue

   fasta_file = open('output.fasta', 'w')
   records = (SeqRecord(???), id=????, description="") for i in ???)

   SeqIO.write(records, fasta_file, "fasta")

Thank you in advance.

Are you trying to parse a tabular file, with three columns
(ID, sequence, description)?

I suggest you learn about generator functions in Python.

Peter

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