[Biopython] SeqIO fasta "fakes" recognition
Hernán Morales Durand
hernan.morales at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 02:52:46 UTC 2012
Why don't you filter for file names ended with fasta known extensions?
(.fa, .fasta, etc.)
2012/2/23 Marco Galardini <marco.galardini at unifi.it>
> On 02/23/2012 05:35 PM, Eric Talevich wrote:
>
>>
>> I suppose there's always:
>>
>> try:
>> record = SeqIO.read("gigo.png", "fasta")
>> assert str(record.seq).isalpha()
>> except:
>> # complain...
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the hint, I've implemented this (using the parse method) and
> i'll see how it will perform (i guess it will had some overhead).
>
> Marco
>
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