[bip] Blog post on bioinformatics and Python

[C. Titus Brown]

-> > Peter, I think, said:
-> > As previously been suggested on this list, what are the problems with
-> > BioPython and can these be fixed?

(Sorry to reply to the wrong message, but I can't find the original one
in my inbox)

What frustrated the heck out of me when I tried to use BioPython was the
apparently lack of automated tests; at any rate, I spent a good two
hours of my first serious BioPython hacking session fixing some detail
deep inside the BLAST parsing module -- not BioPython's fault, the BLAST
format changes every 5 seconds -- and I looked for tests to run.  I
couldn't find anything at the time, and that worried me.

I think there are systematic problems with the whole BioPython/BioPerl
approach, too, but that's not what you asked :).

cheers,
--titus