[Biopython-dev] Indexing (large) sequence files with Bio.SeqIO

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Thu Aug 20 18:07:38 UTC 2009


On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Peter<biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Done on github - I also had to override all the writeable dict methods like
> pop and clear which don't make sense here. The code for the class is now
> a bit longer, but is certainly more dict-like. I also had to implement __str__
> and __repr__ to do something I think is useful and sensible.
>

I have checked this new indexing functionality into CVS, but the github branch
is still there for the SFF file support (parsing and indexing). We can of course
still easily tweak the naming or the public side of the API. In the meantime
I'll think about updating the tutorial...

Peter



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