This page describes current state of the development of the
Bio.motifs
(formerly Bio.Motif
) module.
Enhancements currently underway:
There are also multiple features - suggested mostly by Leighton Pritchard http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2009-April/005834.html 1 and http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2009-April/005811.html 2
which would extend highly extend usability of the Bio.Motif module:
Bio.Seq
and Bio.Align
, so that the API is more
natural for the end usersSeq.startwswith
, .endswith
, .find
and
.rfind
to support passing motifs to them. See also
this commit.Kind of separate issue (also from Leighton) is to take into account HMM based motif searching:
If you want to contribute, please contact bartek@rezolwenta.eu.org or biopython@biopython.org.