[Biojava-dev] [Biojava-l] FASTA Header Parser

[Hannes Brandstätter-Müller]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 16:24, Scooter Willis <HWillis at scripps.edu> wrote:
> Hannes
>
> Looks like the length= is something I am specifically looking for to
> truncate as being redundant information and not part of the unique id for
> a header. Are you using "HG7JTKN01BFWC8 rank=0000030 x=474.5 y=10.0" as
> your unique ID?

So far I was using that (or rather, the whole header)

> Is this a custom header or something output from a sequencing
> instrument/software?

It's the output of the Roche/454 Titanium FLX Sequencer

> Does it make sense to formally support this header where the unique ID
> would be HG7JTKN01BFWC8 and rank x y would be added as meta data to the
> sequence?

As far as I know, the ID should be unique.

> I checked in the change to GenericFastaHeaderParser

Thanks, is there any ETA on a new official release? I don't want to
switch to the development version for my project.

Hannes