[Bioperl-l] Using IO::Filter::gzip with Bio::SeqIO

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Michael Muratet wrote:

> Greetings
>
> Has anyone tried/succeeded in using one of the IO filters with SeqIO to read
> sequences from gziped (like they come from Genbank) files?

surely


  open(F,"gunzip -c $filename |");

  $seqin = Bio::SeqIO->new( -format => $format, -fh => \*F);

works fine...



>
> Could I have an example? I can't get it to work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
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