[EMBOSS] interference between databank and file names

Guy Bottu gbottu at ben.vub.ac.be
Thu Nov 13 16:27:51 UTC 2003


from : BEN

	Dear colleagues,

Today one of our users bumped on a problem. It is an old one, because it 
existed with GCG also. When you put a sequence in a file that happens to 
have the same name as an existing databank (from emboss.defaults), e.g. 
"sw", and you ask a program to operate on "sw" it will not take the 
sequence from the file but (depending on whether it's a sequence or a 
seqall) on the first or all sequences from SwissProt. What do you think 
about this ? Should the EMBOSS library routine that fetches the sequences 
look first in files and only then in databanks instead of the opposite, or 
give a warning message when there is a file/databank name interference ?

	Sincerely,
	Guy Bottu



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