Bioperl: Re: Bio::Tools::Blast

[Ewan Birney]

> 
> In any case, what annoys me is that many people are using the
> description field to encapsulate meta-data, but nobody is doing it in
> the same way.  Even at the NCBI, I see different conventions.  For
> example, Greg Schuler has a simple tag=value notation, but FASTA files
> produced by other NCBI scientists use the | symbol to delineate
> positional parameters.  A real mess.
> 

Completely agree. Plus it is asking for line buffering stuff to break
(I know we shouldn't have this sort of complaint - but there you go.
Lots of things do have a max line buffering size).

> My original comments stand.  

I'm with you lincoln. 

> 
> Is there an ASN.1 parser in BioPerl?
> 

I'm planning to write an XS interface into readseq which I think also
includes ASN.1 for sequences (?)

But a full-blown parser? Would we want/need one? (ie... do you mean ASN.1
as a general parser, or ASN.1 just for sequences)


Ewan Birney
<birney@sanger.ac.uk>
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/birney/

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