[Biojava-l] GCG format...

Schreiber, Mark mark.schreiber@agresearch.co.nz
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:05:29 +1300


One of the issues with GCG format is the checksum. I have seen methods
that calculate and verify the checksum but I'm not sure that they are
supposed to be used. Ie GCG won't tell you how to do it so doing it
anyway might be breaking some annoying little copyright law.

- Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wiepert, Mathieu [mailto:Wiepert.Mathieu@mayo.edu] 
> Sent: Saturday, 12 October 2002 4:54 a.m.
> To: 'Andrew Macgregor'; BioJava
> Subject: RE: [Biojava-l] GCG format...
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Have you considered doing a system call to seqret (from 
> emboss)?  Is that a possibility for you?  Not sure what 
> system you are running on, etc.  May be a hack, but it would 
> work.  Or else system calls to GCG, which will also do some 
> formatting for you.  Again a hack, but workable...
> 
> -Mat
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Macgregor [mailto:andrew@anatomy.otago.ac.nz]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:58 PM
> > To: BioJava
> > Subject: [Biojava-l] GCG format...
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I see from the mailing list archive that there was mention 
> of someone 
> > creating a GCG format for BioJava. Did this happen? Is it 
> necessary? 
> > I'm interested in seeing how to convert from one format to
> > another a bit like I
> > could with this bioperl script. Is something like this 
> > possible. I can see
> > how to use Embl, Genbank and Fasta but not GCG.
> > 
> > TIA for any pointers.
> > 
> > 
> > use Bio::SeqIO;
> > 
> > my $in  = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => "$ARGV[0]" , '-format' 
> => 'Fasta');
> > 
> > # number for files
> > my $i=1;
> > 
> > while ( my $seq = $in->next_seq() ) {
> > 
> >     my $out = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => ">$i.seq" , '-format'
> > => 'gcg');
> >     $out->write_seq($seq);
> > 
> >     $i++;
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers, Andrew.
> > 
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