cjfields1

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   by cjfields1 12y ago

   Curious. Where have you run into them (so I can run the other way :)
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   by cjfields1 12y ago

   The FASTA parsers for the various Bio* all support additional characters; if not then that would definitely be a bug. Saying that, 'support' completely depends on what the FASTA is and where it comes from (assembly, sequence datab
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   by cjfields1 12y ago

   Okay, I think I see the discrepancy. It's a nomenclature thing. The Bio* refer to the additional stuff after the ID as the sequence 'description'. There is a subtle difference between that and a simple comment, though I hav
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   by cjfields1 12y ago

   Agreed re: implied superiority. I view all the Bio* are toolkits, frankly, and thus pieces of those toolkits are developed based on the wants/needs of users (some of whom simply do not know perl). BioPerl just happened to be one of t
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   by cjfields1 12y ago

   Actually, in the Bio* langs that would be referred to as the 'description'. @dalke is referring to the very rarely-used ';' I believe, which I don't recall any modern-day FASTA parser supporting.
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   by cjfields1 12y ago

   It's not too far off the mark. Perl 6 is probably best described as a dialect. The look and design of the language are very Perl-ish, but some of the key sore points from Perl 5 (OO, concurrency, etc) are addressed and it has added a