[Bioperl-l] GFF3

[Rob Edwards]

I don't really feel that strongly about this, but it seems that if I 
were downloading a gff3 file and wanted to read the sequence I would 
probably look in SeqIO for a reader. That was my primary rationale for 
Bio::SeqIO::gff.

Rob


On Jan 17, 2005, at 9:27 PM, Allen Day wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> I looked at FeatureIO::gff and merged in your changes with some
> modifications.
>
> I also added a next_seq() method to FeatureIO::gff that is activated 
> when
> a /^##FASTA/ or /^>/ line is encountered.  Functionality delegates to
> Bio::SeqIO's fasta parser.  I think this obviates the need for
> Bio::SeqIO::gff.
>
> Please update your repository and have a look at t/FeatureIO.t (unit 
> test
> for FeatureIO, also added).
>
> -Allen