[BioPython] Generating Figures in Python

[Jeffrey Chang]

Yes, of course biopython is interested, provided it's general,
maintainable, and violates no laws.  :)

Biopython is a repository of all types of code that's useful for more than
a small number of people.  Your description of modular visualization tools
fits the bill.

Jeff




On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Brad Chapman wrote:

> Hello all;
> This past week I've been writing code to help me generate figures for
> some exploratory research I've been doing. Using the really excellent
> reportlab distribution (http://www.reportlab.com), I've already been
> generating some pretty nice pdf output. For instance, here's an 
> example of the type of stuff:
> 
> http://www.bioinformatics.org/bradstuff/lab/cotton_locations-all.pdf
> 
> This got me thinking -- is there any interest in this type of code for 
> biopython? 
> 
> Right now the code I've got is just for drawing chromosome stuff like
> this, but reportlab lets you make things nice and modular, so it seems
> like it would be possible to collect a lot of different useful "figure
> parts" for putting together stuff like this. What do people think --
> is this generally useful?
> 
> If you are interested, you can look at the code I have right now in
> the CVS repository I use at bioinformatics.org:
> 
> http://bioinformatics.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/biopy-pgml/Bio/PGML/Graphics/
> 
> Anyways, just thought I would throw the idea out there.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> 
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