[Bioperl-l] Re: SeqWithQuality and biosql

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Jul 5, 2005, at 7:55 PM, mark.schreiber at novartis.com wrote:

> I would propose the
> following for compound alphabets...
>
> (aca)(gtc) for codon alphabets.
> (g17)(t40) for quality type alphabets.

In your convention wouldn't this need to be
(g(17))(t(40))

Otherwise you'd have trouble representing higher-dimensional 
cross-products unless you alternate chars and digits which would be a 
useless restriction.

	-hilmar
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