[Bioperl-l] Bio::SearchIO TFASTX parsing bug
Aaron J. Mackey
amackey at pcbi.upenn.edu
Mon Oct 25 20:11:13 EDT 2004
Fixed, thanks for the report. Your daily CVS update should get the
patch soon.
-Aaron
Daniel Mascarenhas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we've been using $hit->logical_length('query') on TFASTX reports and
> noticed that it corresponds to $result->query_length divided by 3. That
> is exactly what we would expect for TBLASTX, where both the query and
> hit sequences are translated into aminoacid sequences, however, TFASTX
> compares a protein sequence to a DNA sequence database and therefore
> just the hit logical length makes sense. So, everything else that
> depends on the $hit->logical_length('query') is miscalculated.
>
> We're using bioperl-live from cvs (updated almost daily).
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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