[BioRuby] GFF3

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Mon Aug 16 13:40:48 UTC 2010


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Tomoaki NISHIYAMA
<tomoakin at kenroku.kanazawa-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> Some more exceptional thing would be handling circular genomes with some
> annotation spanning over the cut site of the genome.
>

Hi all,

In case you were not aware, the GFF3 specification was recently (July 2010)
updated to explicitly support circular genomes via a new Is_circular flag in the
GFF3 attributes field. This also defines how the co-ordinates of features
spanning the origin should be defined.

http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2010-July/008003.html

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=5B028E4D-30B2-4DCA-B41A-FF59ABDC4898%40mac.com

Regards,

Peter



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