bioinformatics stuffs. any feedback or contributions would be greatly appreciated i can move code to github/bitbucket to facilitate that if it helps:

NOTE: as of 2009/10/13 some modules which previously lived here have been moved to bitbucket

• biostuff: fast, memory efficient (cython) reader and objects for GFF and tab-delimited BLAST files: http://code.google.com/p/bpbio/source/browse/#svn/trunk/biostuff/biostuff

    from biostuff import BlastLine
    for line in open('some_file.blast'):
        b = BlastLine(line)
        print b.query, b.subject, b.pctid, b.qstart, b.qstop

• gfftools: these mostly require genometools to work, but allow merging and sorting of existing gff files and drawing (using matplotlib) of gff files onto chromosomes.

• ihash : this is a project to encode an interval to a string suitable for indexing in a b-tree, has the same limitations as geohash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash), on which it is based.

• interval_tree : a pure python interval tree that's extremely simple. also a shedskin version. for real work, use the interval tree in bx-python instead.

• seqfind : a cython BKTree and damerau-levenshtein distance for indexing words/sequences.

• and more ...