Re: [Pytables-users] using vlarray

2009-12-13 Thread llewelr
Ernesto. I agree, I think pytables would be a good solution for his full (with gaps) multiple sequence alignment. Regarding your problem, hopefully others with more experience can help with optimization. Personally I've had troubles in similar situations where I had large amounts of varia

Re: [Pytables-users] using vlarray

2009-12-13 Thread Ernesto
Hi Richard, >This looks, in part, a way to store a huge multiple sequence alignment with >a reference sequence (the first character in ( ) being the DNA base in a >reference DNA molecule, but due to the inequal lengths in each VLA, it would >seem that gaps are not stored, or stored else

Re: [Pytables-users] using vlarray

2009-12-13 Thread Ernesto
I'm going to stab at understanding your problem. Correct me where I'm wrong. On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Ernesto wrote: As I wrote I start with an input file. It contains a string of variable length (10e7-10e8). This string consists of four different characters (A,C,G,T), the bases of a