Module 11

SeqIO

Reading sequence files.

Reading files

SeqIO is Biopython's module for reading and writing sequence files. It supports FASTA, FASTQ, and many other formats.

from Bio import SeqIO
# In a real environment:
# for record in SeqIO.parse("sequences.fasta", "fasta"):
#     print(record.id, len(record))

What does SeqIO do?