[Bioperl-l] SeqIO: Validate File-Format

[Jason Stajich]

This has been discussed on the list in the past -
http://search.open-bio.org
and plugging in "SeqIO and validate" brings up some links.

The recent thread starts here:
 http://bioperl.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2003-June/012416.html

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Johnny Amos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using SeqIO as part of a web-application.  I want to verify that files
> are input in FASTA format, but if they are not, I would like to catch the
> error and present an error page.  SeqIO dies if given a bad file-format: is
> there anyway to get it to warn with a return code, instead?  Or is there
> another way I should be approaching this problem?
>
> TIA,
> Johnny
>
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Jason Stajich
Duke University
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