[Bioperl-l] SeqIO (stress) testing

[Hilmar Lapp]

Kris Boulez wrote:
> 
> Quoting Hilmar Lapp (hlapp@gmx.net):
> > Kris Boulez wrote:
> > >
> > > - starting from t/test.genbank, writing a swiss-prot file gives (we die,
> > >   no error thrown)
> >
> > test.genbank is DNA. Do you translate it?
> >
> Nope, checked test.fasta to be protein, forgot this one.
> Should this matter (i.e. does Swissprot checks it is writing a protein
> sequence) ?
> 

Probably it shouldn't matter. But I can imagine that you run into
trouble if you try to write a Genbank feature table in Swissprot format.
One should check what the problem is though. Significant information
loss is, however, almost unavoidable. E.g. in Genpept you have active
site and a binding site both annotated as site, and a tag site_type
tells you what sort of site it is. In Swissprot both sites would have
different keys, and there are no tags apart from 1 note-like comment.

	Hilmar

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