Forum:Is this Rosalind inspired project actually useful?

Question

[Andrew]

I created this project to help me with Rosalind because I found that I needed to create python friendly versions of things like codon tables and BLOSUM matrices repeatedly. I'm fairly new to the world of bioinformatics but I was wondering if this GitHub project has utility outside of me using it for Rosalind.

And another question I had was, is there anything useful that could be added to this project to make it more user-friendly/useable for my future bioinformatics projects?

Answer 1

[jared.andrews07]

That functionality can be found in biopython, which is the most general bioinformatics toolkit in python.

If it was helpful for you, it wasn't useless.

That said, learning how to find tools that do what you're looking for is a skill in itself. In general, if you find yourself thinking "this has got to be a common issue, there has to be some solution", there probably is one (or twelve). Take a few minutes to hunt for them and see if they'll work. Save your brain power and time for the interpretation.

[Andrew]

Thanks for the reply!

It definitely has been useful on a personal level to grow the functionality of this for my specific use case because I assumed this problem had been solved a thousand times already.

With that being said, I'll definitely have to learn more about tools like biopython so I'll keep that in mind!