[BioPython] tools for sequence manipulation

[Iddo Friedberg]

Hi Sagar,

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Sagar Damle wrote:

: Hi all,
:
: Was wondering if biopython has tools that allow various sequence manipulations:
:
: - find sequence complement

Bio.sequtils.complement or Bio.sequtils.antiparallel for complement and
reverse-complement, respectively.


: - display sequence string in opposite direction

Bio.sequtils.reverse

: - perform reg-expression searches of sequences (where N stands for
: A/T/G/C, R stands for A/G, S stands for C/G, etc.)

Bio.sequtils.nt_search seems to support IUPAC ambiguity.

:
: looking briefly at the sequence structures, I wasn't able to find any of
: these methods.do they exist yet?
:


Not as methods, but they're in a utilities package.

I hope this helped,

Iddo


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