[Bioperl-l] One more about swiss parsing

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 02:44  AM, Elia Stupka wrote:

> Another question... we don't store the molecular weight and the crc64 
> given in the swissprot file. Of course molecular weight is easy to get 
> using the module in bioperl. CRC64 is a little trickier because at the 
> moment it is not encapsulated in a standalone module but in an 
> internal method of swiss.pm...
>
> a)why not store them while we are parsing the file so that they don't 
> need to be calculated if people want to dump them

Because it is (supposedly) easy to calculate them at runtime.

>
> b)why not put the crc64 cryptic code in a tools module?

Yes. Which one though. Also, at this point the piece of code is used in 
exactly 2 places (a couple months ago I copied&pasted the code to 
calculate the CRC for references for bioperl-db ...).

Anyway, I think it'd be helpful.

	-hilmar

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>
> Elia
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