[Bioperl-l] sequence validation

[Joel Martin]

Hello,
	Voting from the sidelines, I don't expect bioperl or anything
else to validate sequence just because I read it in, if it's suspect
I'd expect to explicitly call the validation routine.  To me it seems
counterintuitive to have to turn that off everytime I read a seq in order
to avoid a performance hit.

Joel

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, William R.Pearson wrote:

>
> I must point out that, from the point of view of the FASTA program, and
> I think
> BLAST as well, any sequence of printable characters is a "valid" FASTA
> protein
> or DNA sequence.  Letters that do not conform to IUPAC amino-acids or
> nucleotides
> are simply ignored, as are numbers, spaces, tabs, etc.
>
> Bill Pearson
>
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