[Bioperl-l] Empty FASTA files with Bio::SeqIO

[Aaron J Mackey]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> The correctly FASTA-formatted empty seq ought to have an empty line after
> the '>'-line. I think we should check for that, just to be sure we're not
> misinterpreting something.

The fasta programs accept:

>sequence 1
>sequence 2
ATCGCGCA
>sequence 3
>
>sequence 5

>sequence 6
GATTACA

Note the "sequence 4" that has no description at all.

Of course these examples represent garbage input, but I just wanted to
clarify *all* the possibilities.

-Aaron

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