[Biopython-dev] Active projects list? (BOSC Biopython Project Update)

[Andrea Pierleoni]

>
> Well, I went and did the basics to be consistent with the existing limited
> dict like support in BioSeqDatabase. Would you mind testing it?
>
> This can be improved by iterating over the cursor rather than building a
> list of identifiers in memory. Likewise __len__ and __contains__ can be
> turned into SQL statements to be more efficient. Do you fancy trying that?
>
> Peter
>


I've tested the new BioSeqDatabase in postgres BioSQL db containing 50000
bioentry,
and it works very fast (I'm using python 2.6) even in this way.
howver using SQL will be much better of course. I will take a try, as soon
as I fix
the DAS client and UniprotIO.

Andrea