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Comment: C: Extract nucleotides from fasta file by a single position
... It's good to do the file parsing yourself, especially as a learning exercise. I think for production or publication it's nice to use parsers that are tested and hopefully eliminate a broad class of simple bugs. ...
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Comment: C: Extract nucleotides from fasta file by a single position
... Just a suggestion for simplifying this process: you don't need to linearize the fasta file, and you don't need to read the whole thing into memory - *especially* if you're just extracting a few single nucleotides. https://gist.github.com/mdshw5/d1e4af5ef83a04630175f0dcc0638b6a ...
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Answer: A: Extract nucleotides from fasta file by a single position
... You can format the table like UCSC region strings (chr:start-end) which are 1-based closed coordinates. This way you don't have to worry about converting to [0,1) half-open coordinates like BED requires. Then you can pipe the region strings to either `samtools faidx` or `faidx` from the pyfaidx pack ...
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Comment: C: How do I get a list of all species with a fasta genome in UCSC?
... The [genomepy](https://github.com/simonvh/genomepy) python library uses this method for [listing UCSC genomes](https://github.com/simonvh/genomepy/blob/master/genomepy/provider.py#L386). ...
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Answer: A: How do I get a list of all species with a fasta genome in UCSC?
... You can get an XML listing of all the current genomes from their DAS server: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/das/dsn $ curl -s http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/das/dsn | head -n20 Dec. 2013 (GRCh38/hg38) at UCSC Human Dec. 2013 (GRCh38/hg38) Genome at UCSC ...
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Comment: C: Stranger Things: unexpected limitations of popular tools
... I guess I just don't see too much of a problem with record-based formats. If you need to efficiently index columns, you'll need a database. For most unix tools you're relying on readline and so any operation on columns has to read the entire row anyway. With a record-based format you're at least val ...
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Comment: C: Stranger Things: unexpected limitations of popular tools
... Can't you achieve most of what you propose by just adding user-defined SAM tags? These are similar to "optional" columns, and have the benefit of namespacing and static typing. I guess one big loss here would be the ability to naively sort the file on tags, but sorting shouldn't be too hard, and wou ...
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Comment: C: Use of if-else statement in snakemake rule
... if {wildcards.variant_status} == 'Somatic': should be if wildcards.variant_status == 'Somatic': The `run:` statement interprets everything in the subsequent block as python code, so the `{}` used for templating variables in strings are no longer necessary. ...
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Comment: C: Stranger Things: unexpected limitations of popular tools
... The purpose of SRA format is to have a column-oriented datastore where each column can have a separate datatype-specific compression applied. Sequences, sequence names, quality scores, alignment information... all get compressed more efficiently than just gzipping all the data. Rows in SRA are indiv ...
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Answer: A: Extact specific sequence from a fasta file into multiple files using ID and EC f
... If you really want to use `Biopython` feel free, but here's a solution using `pyfaidx`, which saves you the trouble of reading the entire file. https://gist.github.com/mdshw5/b2073cf96f7ef2e54ef3f09495d37f82 ...
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