The Align and Container classes

• Importing sequences in the fasta format
  • Simplest case
  • Alignments and containers
• Exporting data
  • Exporting as fasta
  • Other formats
• Iteration
  • Principle of proxy types
  • Example
• Accessing and editing data
  • Accessing a given sample
  • Editing names
  • Editing sequences or data entries
  • Editing labels
  • Initializing instances
  • Add/remove samples
  • Editing alignments
• Alphabets
  • Facilities available in Align/Container instances
• Protein translation
  • The tools.translate() function
  • The tools.Translator class
  • Detecting open reading frames and processing stop codons