[Bioperl-l] SeqIO

[Chris Fields]

Heh, good one!  Though Jason may have worked out the issue (not  
indicating the format explicitly).  Would be worth looking at the  
tested files.

As for dinosaurs, well I can't talk ...

chris

On Mar 5, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Brian Osborne wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Many many years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, only about  
> half of the formats had their own tests. A primitive being saw this  
> and created simple tests for all the 'missing' formats. His thought  
> probably was 'this is better than nothing'. In fact this being  
> assumed that GCG was an outdated and unused format, even as long ago  
> as that time was.
>
> The origins of so much of what we now know as 'Bioperl' are  
> frequently mysterious, or incomprehensible to modern day humans...
>
> Brian O.
>
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Chris Fields wrote:
>
>> Also, kind of odd that the sequence data wasn't checked...