[Biopython] Write operations for abi format in Bio.SeqIO

[Peter Cock]

Hello Rohan,

The ABI format has a vast number of metadata fields which would make a
writer rather complicated to use (except for the special case of
loading an existing file, modifying it, and writing out the new
version).

Do you have a use case? The only one I can come up with it redoing the
base calling, and then updating the called sequence in the ABI file.

Thanks,

Peter

On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:34 PM Rohan Kanchana <rohankanchana at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm Rohan Kanchana, a student at MIT. I observed that Bio.SeqIO only supports read operations for the "abi" format. I have code that would support a write operation for the "abi" format, so I wanted to ask the following: why are write operations not currently supported by BioPython for the "abi" format? If there is no reason, would making such a contribution to the BioPython library be useful?
>
> Thanks,
> Rohan
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