Bio.ExPASy.Enzyme module

Parse the enzyme.dat file from Enzyme at ExPASy.

See https://www.expasy.org/enzyme/

Tested with the release of 03-Mar-2009.

Functions:

• read Reads a file containing one ENZYME entry

• parse Reads a file containing multiple ENZYME entries

Classes:

• Record Holds ENZYME data.

Bio.ExPASy.Enzyme.parse(handle)

Parse ENZYME records.

This function is for parsing ENZYME files containing multiple records.

Arguments:

• handle - handle to the file.

Bio.ExPASy.Enzyme.read(handle)

Read one ENZYME record.

This function is for parsing ENZYME files containing exactly one record.

Arguments:

• handle - handle to the file.

class Bio.ExPASy.Enzyme.Record

Bases: dict

Holds information from an ExPASy ENZYME record as a Python dictionary.

Each record contains the following keys:

• ID: EC number

• DE: Recommended name

• AN: Alternative names (if any)

• CA: Catalytic activity

• CF: Cofactors (if any)

• PR: Pointers to any Prosite documentation entries that correspond to the enzyme

• DR: Pointers to any Swiss-Prot protein sequence entries that correspond to the enzyme

• CC: Comments

__init__()

Initialize the class.

__repr__()

Return the canonical string representation of the Record object.

__str__()

Return a readable string representation of the Record object.