[BioPython] Question about indexing fasta files

Brad Chapman chapmanb at uga.edu
Thu Mar 4 12:17:08 EST 2004


Hi Andy;

> Does the fasta indexer normally convert sequence to all upper case
> automatically? I have seq with lc masking and want to preserver that when
> fetching sequences..

No, the indexer doesn't do any conversion of the sequence
information -- you should get it back from a RecordParser of
SequenceParser in the same case as you put it in.

Hope this helps.
Brad


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