[Biopython] I've written a library for executing fuzzy searches

[Peter Thorpe]

On 13 November 2013 17:00, <biopython-request at lists.open-bio.org> wrote:

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I would like to see this included in the Biopython package :)

Cheers,

Pete

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> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 19:59:47 +0200
> From: Tal Einat <taleinat at gmail.com>
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> Hi everyone,
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> (I'm not on this list, so please make sure to reply to me as well as the
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> In response to a stackoverflow
> question<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19725127/>,
> I've written a Python library for fuzzy searches called
> 'fuzzysearch'<https://github.com/taleinat/fuzzysearch>.
> Currently, it allows searching for a string inside a longer string,
> returning the best sub-string which match up to a given maximum Levenshtein
> distance. This is done quite efficiently, and there is more optimization to
> be done, as needed.
>
> Is there any interest in this library and its further development? One
> thing which I think might be useful is support for BioPython Sequence
> types.
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> This is open-source with a very liberal license (the MIT license).
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> I'd be happy to collaborate on this!
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> - Tal Einat
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