bioperl-live

Core BioPerl 1.x code

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2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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dalke·Dec 15, 2014

I'm a bit surprised at the implied superiority to the other Bio* projects. None of them started as a copy of BioPerl (and btw, it's "Biopython", not "BioPython"), and none of them are trying to implement all of the features of BioPerl. For that matter, the other projects implement features that BioPerl doesn't have. It's interesting that the example supports a comment in the FASTA record. I wonder why the author included it. I've never seen a comment used in the wild, but then again I haven't worked with FASTA files for some time. My experience was that nearly every tool would break if you give it a FASTA file with a comment. For example, the BioPerl FASTA parser is at https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/blob/master/Bio/SeqI... , where you can see it doesn't support a comment. Since the chance of breakage is so high, my belief 10 year

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