[Biopython] Back translation support in Biopython

[Peter Cock]

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Igor Rodrigues da Costa
<igorrcosta at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am interested in participating in GSoC this summer. I would
> like to know if there is community support for a new project:
> Extending Seq class to add support to back translation of
> proteins (something like this: http://www.bork.embl.de/pal2nal/ ).
> If this project isn't strong enough at its own, it could be added
> to any existing project, or it could be complemented with others
> suggestions from the community.
> Thanks for your attention,Igor

Hi Igor,

I don't think back translation in itself is nearly enough to be a
GSoC project. Is it also problematic - we had a good long
discussion about back translation, and what it might be useful
for, back in 2008. In particular, assuming back translation to
a simple nucleotide sequence (as a string or Seq object),
what would it actually be useful for?

See http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2618 which
is now using https://redmine.open-bio.org/issues/2618 and
the quite long and at times confusing thread:
http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2008-October/004588.html

Did you have any other ideas or topics that interested you?

Regards,

Peter