[BioRuby] alignment.rb

Pjotr Prins pjotr at pckassa.com
Sat Sep 24 12:07:45 EDT 2005


On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 12:51:38AM +0900, Naohisa Goto wrote:
> I think this may be very good for algorithmic or mathematical methods.
> I fear this might not be so good for database parsers, especially
> for complex structured data, because they depend on original
> data's structure and I think we can hardly describe every location in
> original data in every method's unittest where the method's
> return value is based on.

Most of the examples in the tutorial require a simple input string or
file - which can be tested against. For online/db examples I agree
that we should not depend on external tools. Nevertheless it usually
is quite possible to 'fake' something.

Pj.


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