[EMBOSS] knowntypes

[Sebastien Moretti]

>> Are there 'official' knowntypes for stdout, stderr (outfile) ? And
>> the equivalent of 'dna fasta' for protein infile ?
> 
> There are official knowntypes for files ... see the knowntypes.standard
> file in the ACD directory.
> 
> These are the knowntypes we use in the ACD files. We welcome any
> suggestions for new types or changes to the existing types.
> 
> The knowntypes are only used for validation (in acdvalid). We limit the
> types to try to reuse the same names for matching input and output files
> in different applications.
> 
> We will add a "protein fasta" and a "sequence fasta" to the standards file.

"Protein fasta" and "sequence fasta" were missing.

stdout is less required because it should be the normal program output.
But you should add a knowntype for stderr.

> There is no problem with adding new knowntypes for your own 
> applications, but we like to know which ones are found to be useful so 
> we can make them official EMBOSS standard types too.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Peter Rice

Thanks

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