[Bioperl-l] Re: entrezgene binary ASN

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Oct 2, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Michael Seewald wrote:

> On 10/2/05, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Stefan Kirov wrote:
>>
>>> Hilmar,
>>> As of now the parser does not seek through the streem, but hopefully
>>> it will as soon as I can sit down and do it
>>
>> What advantage would that have?
>
>
>
> You could create an index and seek by gene id. Could be handy in some 
> cases,
> although I wouldn't use it (personally).
>
> [...]
>
> The "streaming use" shouldn't be affected. BTW, there are other bioperl
> modules that use indices.

Right, but they use a different implementation (module) for indexing, 
not the SeqIO parser (it only parses the entry).

	-hilmar


> Best wishes,
> Michael
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