[Bioperl-l] Announcing Bio::SFF

[Peter Cock]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Leon Timmermans
<l.m.timmermans at students.uu.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I understand - but make sure you've designed the data structures
>> in the parser so as to allow the original record to be re-built as SFF.
>
>  I did, though currently it's rather hard to make new entries from scratch.
> That said, I can hardly imagine anyone wanting to do this.

Typical use cases I've found in using the Biopython SFF code are
filtering an SFF file (taking some records only), and modifying the
clipping values. In both cases, the user isn't creating the SFF
records from scratch.

Peter