[Bioperl-l] EMBL Identifier line is incorrect when using SeqIO (1.4)

michael watson (IAH-C) michael.watson at bbsrc.ac.uk
Fri Oct 22 05:10:37 EDT 2004


Hi

Yes I tracked it down - the ID is limited to a string of 11 characters
in the Bioperl module, and so I assume it is so in the EMBL format.

Mick

-----Original Message-----
From: Hilmar Lapp [mailto:hlapp at gmx.net] 
Sent: 21 October 2004 16:42
To: michael watson (IAH-C)
Cc: Bioperl
Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] EMBL Identifier line is incorrect when using
SeqIO (1.4)


If you make the ID shorter, is there still no space? I believe the ID 
is length-limited in EMBL, but I'd have to check the specs to be sure.

	-hilmar

On Thursday, October 21, 2004, at 06:38  AM, michael watson (IAH-C) 
wrote:

> Hi
>
> Using bioperl-1.4 on Suse Linux, I find that when writing sequences in

> EMBL format using SeqIO, there is no space left after the display_id 
> e.g.
>
> "J18191-1h03.p1k" becomes "ID   J18191-1h03.p1kstandard; DNA; UNK;
1657
> BP."
>
> Mick
>
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