[Biopython] Any way to add accessible meta-data/comments to FASTA files?

[Peter Cock]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Giles Velarde <gv1 at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
> GFF3? You can create features in the first part, add any metadata you like
> them in the 9th column, and have FASTA blocks at the bottom.
>
> There's nothing stopping you having 1 feature per FASTA block, I think.
>
> Best, Giles.

I'm not sure I'd pick GFF3, but as alternatives to FASTA there
certainly there are many annotation supporting sequence file
formats out there, old and new (e.g. GenBank and SeqXML
are both supported in Biopython).

Peter