aspartik.data.fasta

class DNARecord:

A FASTA record with a DNA sequence

Consists of a DNASeq and the record id/description.

raw_description

Full description, including the starting > character

id

ID of the record

ID is conventionally defined as the subset of the description from the start to the first space character. This method will return the full description if there are no spaces in it or an empty string of the description starts with a space (or is empty itself).

description

Description of the record

It does not include the starting '>' character, use raw_description for the full string.

sequence

Inner sequence

XXX: this getter currently performs a deep clone of the sequence.