[EMBOSS] transeq feature/bug

[Marc Logghe]

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> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:14 AM
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> Subject: [EMBOSS] transeq feature/bug
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> A Pise user reported the following issue when running transeq: the
> resulting translation is dependant on the order of the input
sequences.
> 
> As it seems, transeq takes the length of the first sequence and uses
> that range to translate. Which is fine, but that range is used as well
> for all the sequences that are coming after, which is wrong.
> 
> If it happens that your first sequence in the list is smaller than the
> ones coming after, then all translations are truncated.
> 
> I think that is a bug.
> 
Update. It is not a bug. The issue was an old transeq.acd file hanging
around with ' default: "$(sequence.begin)-$(sequence.end)"' for the
regions parameter. Sorry for the fuzz and thanks Peter for looking into
this.
Regards,
Marc