[Biopython] Use of Reportlab

[Peter Cock]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Gregory Terzian <gregory at reportlab.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> This is Gregory from Reportlab. I noticed that BioPython includes some
> useful features making use of the Reportlab library. In general I am very
> interested in hearing more about how the library is used so please feel
> free to get in touch with me with any feedback/suggestion. We're also
> always looking to offer additional services built around the core library
> so if there is anything that you feel would be useful in your line of work
> please do let me know.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gregory

Hi Gregory,

I'm on the Reportab mailing list and post sometimes - which
reminds me I never did put together a little portfolio of examples
for the ReportLab website (to balance out the clever commericial
uses like on demand custom hotel/holiday PDF files). e.g.

GenomeDiagram:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btk021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.phyto.44.070505.143444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10482-009-9316-9

Cross links in genome diagrams:
http://news.open-bio.org/news/2012/03/cross-links-in-genomediagram/
http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040683

Chromosome diagrams:
http://news.open-bio.org/news/2011/10/chromosome-diagrams-in-biopython/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.12307
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-75

Note some of these received manual tweaking in Adobe for the
final figures.

One thing I've been meaning to check up on is how ReportLab's
Python 3 work is going (and how much the API will change with
all the potential string vs unicode problems).

Peter