genome sequence look up tool

Question

[evcon]

Is there a tool to look up genomic sequences? Something in python would be most helpful. For example something like this:

>>>getseq('chr1'.'100500','100505')
AACTGC

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

search this site for "samtools faidx" and the related python libraries (pyfaidx)

[evcon]

Thanks! This is perfect! Knew this had to exist already.

Answer 1

[h.mon]

BioPython and pyfaidx in python, samtools on the command-line