[Biopython-dev] Bio.IntelliGenetics

[Peter]

Forgot to send this to the list, another point about IntelliGenetics vs MASE

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From: Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Biopython-dev] Bio.IntelliGenetics
To: mjldehoon at yahoo.com


> How would you separate the file header comment from the first record
> comment?  Some files include what looks like a file header but the
> lines all seem to start with "; ".  Maybe look for "; LOCUS..."?
> Given the whole comment seems to be free format I don't think this is
> very nice.
>
> On the other hand, some of the sample inputs includes a number of
> lines starting ";; Modified by ..." which would be easy to separate
> (one semi colon versus two semi colons).  These are clearly file-level
> header lines, rather than being part of the first record.

I found an old link I had added on the wiki page for SeqIO development,
http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/help/formats.html

This clearly describes MASE format format s having (optional) header
lines as starting with two semi colons.  But are MASE and
IntelliGenetics the same thing?

Petet