Newbie programmer question: How do parsers work?(Python examples?)

2006-08-25 Thread bio_enthusiast
I was wondering exactly how you create a parser. I'm learning Python and I recently have come across this material. I'm interested in the method or art of writing a parser. If anyone has some python code to post for an abstract parser, or links to some informative tutorials, that would be great.

Questions about OSS projects.

2006-06-27 Thread bio_enthusiast
I was wondering how to go about starting an open source project for doing routine biological problems? There is a plethora of scripts and a fairly large biopython project to back up anyone who tried, these however cater to the bioinformatics community and it loses the vast majority of the wet-lab s