Genbank Documentation¶

Retrieve genbank files and extract specific features sucha as cds or aa. Also, write the features to text files.

If you haven’t worked with genbank files before or are unfamiliar with what they look like, view a sample genbank record.

Usage¶

The main class is GenBank.

Ext ension	Meaning	Notes
fasta	generic fasta	Any generic fasta file. Other extensions can be fas, fa, seq, fsa
fna	fasta nucleic acid	Used generically to specify nucleic acids.
ffn	FASTA nu cleotide of gene regions	Contains coding regions for a genome.
faa	fasta amino acid	Contains amino acids. A multiple protein fasta file can have the more specific extension mpfa.
frn	FASTA no n-coding RNA	Contains non-coding RNA regions for a genome, in DNA alphabet e.g. tRNA, rRNA