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

[Jason Stajich]

sweet -thank Tony.
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Tony Cox wrote:

> 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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Jason Stajich
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