[Bioperl-l] volunteers needed: HOWTO documentation improvements

[Fields, Christopher J]

+1.  Much of this could be taken from the synopsis itself.

( note this is not me volunteering, my hands are full ATM :)

chris

On May 29, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Jason Stajich wrote:

> Looking at some of the HOWTOs I think we could do a better job explaining some things with more examples.
> 
> Anyone hit their head against things and wished there was more descriptions or examples? Be great if you could help out the project and contribute to this by suggesting places for more examples or providing some of your own.
> 
> For example, I think more extensive description of how to use Bio::DB::Fasta -- which is really the best module for sequence indexing and retrieval could be added to this HOWTO:
> http://bioperl.org/wiki/HOWTO:Local_Databases
> 
> More examples and explanations of problems like when the sequence lines are uneven and how to fix it, how to use some of the dynamic call backs to extract the sequence IDs from complicated IDs e.g.
>> gi|1234|gb|ABCD.1|ABCD
> 
> Being able to query on the GI number or the locus or the accession number--- anyone want to put such a thing into the howto?
> 
> -Jason
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> 
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