[emboss-dev] Mapping feature types to Sequence Ontology (SO)

[Peter Cock]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Peter Rice <pmr at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 17/08/2011 17:07, Peter Cock wrote:
>> I'm curious what other file formats needed this kind of work. But it
>> is good that you've already got some buffer/cache infrastructure
>> in place. Does it boil down to writing temp files in /tmp ?
>
> MSF (checksum at the top), Phylip (number of sequences at the top).
>
> In ajseqwrite.c these are the ones with the Save attribute set true.
>
> We keep them in memory and write them when the output file is closed.

I wasn't thinking of alignments, but that makes perfect sense.

Thanks,

Peter C.