[bip] ab1 sequence file reader in python

[Sebastian Bassi]

On 8/30/07, Titus Brown <titus at caltech.edu> wrote:
> ->    Has anyone here written a parser for ab1 sequence files?  I'm
> -> interesting in capturing the quality values that accompany each
> -> sequencing result.  Apparently the file format specs are ABI trade
> -> secrets, but I've read that "many people have reverse-engineered
> -> them" ( http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/bio-soft/2002-June/023729.html ).

AFAIK, the specs for ABI files are public. Look at this file:
www.appliedbiosystems.com/support/software_community/ABIF_File_Format.pdf
I think BioPerl has some code to read ABI files, but I also would like
to see something like this for Python.

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