[Biopython] Is this a valid genbank record?

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 18 14:50:05 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Michael Thon <mike.thon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 18, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Peter Cock wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Michael Thon <mike.thon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  They have weird feature locations:
>>>
>>>     Het             join(bond(127),bond(127),bond(130),bond(130),bond(138),
>>>                     bond(138),bond(139),bond(138))
>>>

Do you actually need to do anything with this feature? If not, then
the pragmatic solution is we issue a warning but otherwise ignore
the feature and continue parsing. I'm struggling to grok exactly
what this location is trying to convey - maybe I should read the
associated paper?

>>
>> Are you happy to test an updated parser?
>>
>
> I'm happy to volunteer my student to test it :)  Just post here when its ready
> and we'll try it.

Will do, with more details about how to test it.

Peter




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