[Biopython] New Feature Idea

[Olin Johnson]

> From: Olin Johnson <olinlj at icloud.com>
> Date: April 15, 2023 at 9:37:26 AM EDT
> To: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Biopython] New Feature Idea
> 
> Hey Peter,
> 
> Thanks for your email - I checked out the RapidFuzz library you linked, which looks great for string comparisons, so I’d definitely agree with your assessment that a Biopython implementation isn’t really necessary. Thanks for the recommendation.
> 
> Best,
> Olin
> 
>> On Apr 6, 2023, at 4:12 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Olin,
>> 
>> I can recommend the RapidFuzz library which has various high
>> performance implementations of string comparisons, including the
>> Hamming distance. I use this for the Levenshtein distance.
>> 
>> https://maxbachmann.github.io/RapidFuzz/index.html
>> https://github.com/maxbachmann/RapidFuzz
>> https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5228985
>> 
>> I don't see that adding our own implementation to Biopython adds much?
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 3:34 AM Olin Johnson <olinlj at icloud.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Howdy!
>>> 
>>> I’m Olin, and I’m interested in contributing to Biopython. While using Biopython, I had the thought that it might be useful to implement a method that calculates the hamming distance between two DNA sequences. This could be useful for quickly finding mutations. Wondering if this would be a good feature to implement.
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