[Bioperl-l] Re: entrezgene binary ASN

[Michael Seewald]

On 9/30/05, Mingyi Liu <mingyi.liu at gpc-biotech.com> wrote:
>
> I didn't say indexing would break, but the performance of retrieval
> would be horrible. That's why in most situations there's no need to use
> pipe - after all, any one who needs to use index & ID-based retrieval
> would convert the binary ASN to text file anyway (using a script,
> hopefully).


Absolutely right, seeking would be horrible.

Best wishes,
Michael

PS: And thanks for providing this great parser!!