[Bioperl-l] GFF method in Bio::SeqFeatureI

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Matthew Pocock wrote:

> > 
> > I'm not sure but I think the historic gff_string() wouldn't parse
> > truely GFF2-compliant strings correctly. Is that right Mark?
> > (otherwise we wouldn't need _from_gff2_string())
> > 
> > So, your point leads to the question whether to have one single
> > _from_gff() that gracefully parses GFF1, bad GFF, and GFF2, or
> > have _from_gff2 and _from_gff1. The first option seems prone to
> > cause nightmares. Comments? Mark?
> > 
> > 	Hilmar
> 
> <heresy>Could you not produce a GFF module that looks very similar to 
> the SeqIO stuff that consumes text and is a factory for features? It can 
> also have the methods for producing GFF. GFF is a file format, and is in 
> no way integral to SeqFeatureI.</heresy>

Sounds great! When do we expect code matthew?


> 
> Matthew
> 
> 

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