profile.to_alignment() -- profile to alignment

Output:

alignment

Description:

This command will convert a profile that is in memory into the alignment format (see Section 3.9.1). The function of this command is complimentary to alignment.to_profile(). The generated alignment is returned.

Note: Not all information of a 'PIR' format is encoded in a profile. (See profile.read()). So converting a profile to an alignment may need manual attention to ensure that the alignment is useful for other routines.

Example: examples/commands/read_profile.py

# Example file for: profile.read(), profile.to_alignment()

env = environ()

# Create a new, blank, profile
prf = profile(env)

# Read in the profile file
prf.read(file='toxin.prf', profile_format='TEXT')

# Convert the profile to alignment
aln = prf.to_alignment()

# Write out the alignment
aln.write(file='readprofile.pir', alignment_format='PIR')