[Bioperl-l] Bio:SeqIO fasta

[Marc Logghe]

Hi,
I am not a BioPerl specialist but as far as I know you cannot do this
because SeqIO has to know beforehand the kind of sequence it has to deal
with.
What I have been using up to now is Bio::Parse of Lincoln Stein. I think
this module is not part of  BioPerl (anymore) but it does exactly what you
want: it tries to find out what sequence it is and reformat it
appropriately. If it cannot make any sense out of at, as a kind of last
resort, the sequence is sent to ReadSeq for reformatting.
This means you do not get back a BioSeq object as we know it now.
Hope this helps
Marc


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