[Biopython] _align in pairwise

[Peter Cock]

Hi George,

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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:08 PM, George Devaniranjan
<devaniranjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> oh thanks Peter --I am a newbie to python and used to C programming so even
> in python my use of classes is very limited and tend to use simple
> functions.
>
> what I want to do is.......
> I have a file containing 10 FASTA like sequences (actually 1000s but for now
> 10) and I want to calculate the alignment score for the first 1 with the
> other 9 using FASTA like symbols and also use a blossum like matrix to look
> up penalties.
>
> _align looked like a good candidate so I tried to use that--is there another
> way?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> George

Something like this? Check if you want global or local alignments:

http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2009-January/004855.html

Peter