Re: Adding translate to the SeqRecord

Hello again,

Sadly no comments about the proposed SeqRecord translate
method here or github - I've mentioned the idea to a few people
in person who were positive in principle:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/1144

I'm inclined to take this as no objections, and will merge it next
week...

Peter

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Peter Cock <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fellow Biopythoneers,
>
> I'd welcome comments on the idea of adding a translate method
> to the SeqRecord object,
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/1103
>
> This case up in some training material where for the flow of the
> example, we wanted to parse FASTA nucleotides and create a
> translated FASTA protein sequence file.
>
> Also comments on the proposed implementation (eg defaults
> and argument order) here please:
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/1144
>
> (If this is merged, since we have a reverse_complement, it would
> make sense to include the (back)transcribe methods too for
> completeness - here all the annotation could be copies, although
> I'm not sure what the defaults ought best to be.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter