in src/analysis/parsers.py [0:0]
def truncate_stockholm_msa(stockholm_msa_path: str, max_sequences: int) -> str:
"""Reads + truncates a Stockholm file while preventing excessive RAM usage."""
seqnames = set()
filtered_lines = []
with open(stockholm_msa_path) as f:
for line in f:
if line.strip() and not line.startswith(('#', '//')):
# Ignore blank lines, markup and end symbols - remainder are alignment
# sequence parts.
seqname = line.partition(' ')[0]
seqnames.add(seqname)
if len(seqnames) >= max_sequences:
break
f.seek(0)
for line in f:
if _keep_line(line, seqnames):
filtered_lines.append(line)
return ''.join(filtered_lines)