[Bioperl-l] Empty FASTA files with Bio::SeqIO

[Hilmar Lapp]

Aaron J Mackey wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> 
> > The correctly FASTA-formatted empty seq ought to have an empty line after
> > the '>'-line. I think we should check for that, just to be sure we're not
> > misinterpreting something.
> 
> The fasta programs accept:
> 

The fasta programs might indeed do, but many others are much
pickier. I think it was Kris who did the survey some time ago, and
the empty line following the id-line seems to be reasonably safe.

	Hilmar
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