[EMBOSS] transeq and ambiguous codons

[Peter]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Peter Rice<pmr at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.

That sounds good to me :)

Peter C.