[Bioperl-l] Submission proposal: ABIF module

[Chris Fields]

On Oct 22, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Nicola Vitacolonna wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I would like to submit to CPAN a module for reading and parsing the
> ABIF files (with .ab1 suffix) produced by Applied Biosequence
> sequencers. The need for such a module arose in our lab because the
> existing ABI module we found on CPAN had too limited functionality.
> As an example, our module allows us to easily produce analysis
> reports similar to the ones generated by the Sequencing Analysis
> software.
>
> May I call the module Bio::ABIF? Or should I follow other conventions?
>
> Nicola

It depends.  Does it interact with bioperl in any way?

Christopher Fields
Postdoctoral Researcher
Lab of Dr. Robert Switzer
Dept of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign