[Bioperl-l] Question about embl format

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Lincoln Stein wrote:

> OK, so what to do about primary_tags that are >= 15 letters, since BioPerl 
> doesn't enforce a size limit on primary_tags?  If I implement truncation at 
> the write_seq level, then we'll lose round-tripping.


What about coming up with a shorter tag in the database? Or is that a bad 
idea.

Don't really know what to do. We could have a convention about truncated 
the key and then have a 

  /note="key=very_long_key_string"

in the qualifiers