[Bioperl-l] SeqIO/scf.pm bug (with fix)

[Tony Cox]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Jason Stajich wrote:

Hi Jason,

I finally got around to checking in a fix for the SeqIO/scf module when it has
to deal with 8-bit encoded trace data.

Tony

+>
+>>
+>> There is a bug in the SeqIO SCF module that means that SCF files with low
+>> dynamic range data that have their trace data values encoded as 8-bit unsigned
+>> values (rather than the normal 16-bit) are incorrectly parsed. This caused the
+>> unpack function to overrun the data and extract garbage.
+>>

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