[EMBOSS] infoseq table format issues

[Marc Logghe]

Hi Peter,

> > step) to properly import the infoseq output into a spreadsheet. Is 
> > there a way to force infoseq to use tabs only as field separator ?
> 
> Yes .... but ...
> 
> infoseq produces a report or HTML.
> 
> Is the HTML useful?

Yes, just found out that you can perfectly import this format into Excel
...

> 
> Is the text output useful (and is it better to use spaces as text)
> 
> Is tab-delimited output useful (also for other programs)?
I think tab delimited is better (compared to spaces as delimiter). That
way you can easily process the table with cut or sort and that kind of
things.

> 
> Do we need some kind of XML output to replace the HTML?
> 
> Meanwhile, I will look at cleaning up the current infoseq

Thanks and regards,
Marc