[Bioperl-l] about Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::StandAloneFasta

[Peter]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Dimitar Kenanov
<dimitark at bii.a-star.edu.sg> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> i am sorry for the repeating but i was told to post it on the list. So below
> is
> what was my problem and how i solved it for me:
>
> I wrote about that the 'q' option in the module
> 'Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::StandAloneFasta' is not functioning. I
> found out important thing. When 'ssearch' is used from terminal with -O
> (for the output) then there is always output and on the terminal. The only
> way to avoid that is to use '>' to direct to output to a file. So i went
> back to the module and modified it a bit :) Now i can give to the module
> the 'O' option as usual with my output file plus the 'q' option and i
> dont get output on the terminal.

There was a bug in fasta34 here which I asked Bill Pearson about
back in May 2008, you can check this on the FASTA mailing list if
you are a subscriber.
https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/fasta_list

I was finding even when -O was used, some important information
was still going to stdout. Bill said that the -O support was left over
from when fasta could only do one sequence search at a time. I
don't know if it has been addressed yet, but certainly fasta35 and
fasta36 still put a lot of output on stdout even with the -O option.

I therefore followed his advice and never use -O at all, and instead
always capture stdout.

Peter