[Biopython] Making the tutorial more concise

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Oct 20 15:41:21 UTC 2009


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> I feel that the document can be made more concise.
>
> http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html#htoc73
>
> For example, on the above link, it says
> "Hey, everybody loves BLAST right? I mean, geez, how can get it get
> any easier to do comparisons between one of your sequences and every
> other sequence in the known world?"
>
> I think this can be delete. Or it can be simply stated what Chapter 7
> is about at the beginning.

I agree - I think that might have been Brad's casual writing style ;)

I am planning to re-write the BLAST chapter soon, partly due to
Biopython switching to using command line wrappers in module
Bio.Blast.Applications with subprocess, but also we will want to
support the new BLAST+ tools from the NCBI (different command
line argument names etc).

Peter



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