[Biopython] sff inot fasta and qual then trim

Kiss, Csaba csaba.kiss at lanl.gov
Tue Oct 23 13:13:32 EDT 2012


>Could be - disk IO will be a factor, but I suspect the quality trimming to be the slow part rather than the format conversion.

I don't think it's IO or the trimming. Mothur seems to take forever to do the sffinfo process on windows. 
Getting the 3 million sequences out was 3 hours.
The trimming took 10 minutes.
The rest of the python code to fish out my sequences 1 minute.

You see now , why I would like to make it more efficient.

Csaba




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