[Biopython] FASTQ to qual+fasta

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 20 09:52:52 EST 2011


On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Done:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/e26030a290b6acdf5a5fc431056593cccc5d892a
>
> This makes FASTQ to QUAL about three times faster. There is
> probably scope for speeding up how we do the line wrapping in
> QUAL output - both in the the normal SeqRecord based code
> called by Bio.SeqIO.write() and in the new optimised code for
> Bio.SeqIO.convert().
>

Hi Iddo,

I found time yesterday to optimise the line wrapping for QUAL
output, for a further significant speed-up. Please update to the
current code from git and give it a try :)

Peter


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