[Biopython] Filter Blast results

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 1 09:28:25 UTC 2013


On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Justin Gibbons <jgibbons1 at mail.usf.edu> wrote:
>> The example is here:
>> http://biopython.org/wiki/Retrieve_nonmatching_blast_queries
>>
>> I think the example would be improved if it pointed out you could use the
>> Bio.SeqIO.Index() function.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Justin
>
> Excellent suggestion, I've made that change. For future ideas
> you can create a wiki account and edit things directly (but
> feel free to raise discussions like this on the mailing list too).
>
> Thank you,
>
> Peter

Looking back over the history, when David Winter added the
example in early 2009, Bio.SeqIO.index didn't exist yet (that
was new in Biopython 1.52 released in September 2009), so
using the in-memory dictionary like that was reasonable.

Thanks again for the feedback,

Regards,

Peter



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