[Open-bio-l] More FASTQ examples for cross project testing

[Michael Heuer]

Peter wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Michael Heuer<heuermh at acm.org> wrote:
> > Peter wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've been chatting with Peter Rice (EMBOSS) and Chris Fields (BioPerl)
> >> off list about this plan. I'm going to co-ordinate putting together a
> >> set of valid FASTQ files for shared testing (to supplement the
> >> existing set of invalid FASTQ files already done and being used in
> >> Biopython and BioPerl's unit tests - and hopefully with EMBOSS soon).
> >> ...
> >
> > Very cool idea, Peter, and Peter, and Chris.  I don't believe anyone from
> > biojava has spoken up on this thread yet, so I thought I should add that
> > we are working towards a compatible implementation as well.
> >
> >   michael
>
> Hi Michael - we asked the BioJava guys a while back, and at the time
> there was interest but no volunteers. Who is working on this now?

Perhaps I should have kept quiet -- I think I just volunteered.  ;)

   michael