[Bioperl-l] quotes in features

[Michael Muratet]

Greetings

I found the following entry in gbpri1.seq.gz

LOCUS       AB078028                 510 bp    mRNA    linear   PRI
17-JUL-2002
DEFINITION  Homo sapiens ATF3deltaZip2exonD'DE'E gene for ATF3deltaZip2,
            partial cds.
                     /gene="ATF3deltaZip2exonD'DE'E"
     CDS             <1..60
                     /gene="ATF3deltaZip2exonD'DE'E"
                     /codon_start=1

Embedded quotes are a problem for us who try to automatically parse
and/or store in databases the information in the DEFINITION or CDS or
/gene fields. We can deal with them, but adding code for special cases
(and figuring out what those cases are) is time consuming. I'd like to
propose a standard that says that strings that represent names, genes,
etc., contain no spaces, quotes, or non-printing characters, or anything
else that might be construed as a delimiter in perl, C, Java, SQL, etc.. 

Thank you.

Mike