Hi Russell and Mark,
Thanks for the code segment Russell, I see you'd posted it back in Jan/Feb
as well, I'd grabbed it from there. I don't think copyright or the like can
be too much of an issue as Bioperl has a module to do this.
Cheers, Andrew.
Russell Smithies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a bit of code I wrote last year to calculate the GCG checksums:
>
> public int GCGChecksum(String seq){
> int count = 0,
> check = 0;
>
> for(int i = 0; i , seq.length(); i++){
> count ++;
> check += count * seq.toUpperCase().charAt(i);
> if(count == 57)
> count = 0;
> }
> return check % 100000;
> }
>
> As you can see, it's only a hashing checksum so I don't think you'll be
> breaking anyone's copyright.
>
> hope this helps,
>
> Russell
>
>> Message: 2
>> Subject: RE: [Biojava-l] GCG format...
>> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:05:29 +1300
>> From: "Schreiber, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "Wiepert, Mathieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> "Andrew Macgregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> "BioJava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> One of the issues with GCG format is the checksum. I have seen methods
>> that calculate and verify the checksum but I'm not sure that they are
>> supposed to be used. Ie GCG won't tell you how to do it so doing it
>> anyway might be breaking some annoying little copyright law.
>>
>> - Mark
>>
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