[Open-bio-l] OBDA redux?

[Fields, Christopher J]

On Nov 18, 2011, at 5:21 AM, Peter Cock wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Raoul Bonnal <bonnal at ingm.org> wrote:
>> ...
>> And which are the information you want to extract once you
>> have your index ?
>> 
> 
> Biopython and BioPerl have their SeqIO parsers hooked up
> to indexing code. This means you can access a record via its
> ID, and it is parsed for you on demand - just like if you'd
> iterated over the file in order parsing the records one by one.
> 
> Biopython (not sure about BioPerl) can also just fetch the raw
> text of that record.

Re: BioPerl, I'm not sure about the OBDA implementations, but I know the older Bio::Index modules allow this.  I would be surprised if the OBDA-specific code didn't, but adding this should be easy.

chris