>site where the details of the common sequence file formats and documented somewhere that is
>publically accessible?
>>Simon T
>I suppose it's a sign of madness but in reply to my own post I know of
one such detailed collection of format information that comes with the
source for ReadSeq. However, is there a more detailed collection
somewhere?
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this already but fasta format
files with long comments aren't much fun when you try to human-read
the file. One of the reasons I like FASTA format is that it is
simple. If you add a huge header line and you'll should surely have
no problem parsing the line [a line of any length could be computer
read by reading each character at a time until one equals the end of
line character- am I missing something here?] but you'll make it hard
work for the human eye trying to read the file.
Simon T
