[EMBOSS] transeq and ambiguous codons
Peter Rice
pmr at ebi.ac.uk
Thu Jul 9 09:16:40 UTC 2009
Peter C. wrote:
> Thanks Scott (& Thomas) for pointing out the embossversion program.
>
> I would still question why the EMBOSS tools don't also support the
> Unix convention of a version switch. Hypothetically, aren't some
> (many?) of the tools standalone and couldn't they be installed
> individually (e.g. as part of someone else's software bundle)? i.e.
> Can EMBOSS really guarantee that the needle tool and the
> embossversion tool are in sync?
We could easily add a -version global qualifier ... for the next release.
We can guarantee that embossversion and needle are in sync - assuming
they are built using the same libraries as that is where the version is
recorded. Standalone build are an issue though and it would help debug
in a few cases.
regards,
Peter Rice
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