[Bioperl-l] AlignIO error with aligments containing an all-gap sequence

Dave Messina David.Messina at sbc.su.se
Sat Aug 15 08:00:50 UTC 2009


>
> I know that it is possible to have an all-gap LocatableSeq


You can, but to avoid the "can't guess alphabet" error I'm getting you have
to set the alphabet manually (which AlignIO does not).


I'll start a branch to get the process started.


Terrific!

In the meantime, then, I'll just use the -nowarnonempty workaround in
my local copy of AlignIO.


Dave



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