[Biopython-dev] Bio.SeqIO

[Michiel de Hoon]

Peter wrote:
> Note that we may want to improve the generic alignment class at some 
> point (e.g. see bug 1944).  If alignments could be initialized from a 
> SeqRecord list/iterator this would make the SequencesToAlignment() 
> function "obsolete"...
> 
I think that the functionality of SequencesToAlignment fits better in 
Bio.Align than in Bio.SeqIO. The easiest way to accomplish this might be 
to change the __init__ of the Alignment class from

def __init__(self, alphabet)

to

def __init__(self, alphabet, records=[])

--Michiel.