Hi - I was a bit thrown off at first cause I thought you meant there was an error in binary serialization. There seems to be a problem with SwissProt writing. I've commited an addition to SeqIOToolsTest in biojava live that replicates the error but I haven't got time to track it down just yet. If some one else doesn't get it I'll probably find it tommorrow. - Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Southern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 30/09/2003 10:45 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [Biojava-l] RE: Sequence serialization exception - AlphabetManagerproblem? Appologies for following up on my own post. What follows is a simpler test than the serialization I attempted before. Consider the bit of code below and corresponding error message; For some reason, the protein sequence is being treated as a dna sequence. Is there something I am missing with respect to how AlphabetManager treats dna and protein alphabets? Any explainations would be most welcome. Thanks again, Mark. //------------------------------------------------------------------------ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{ String seqFile = "c:\\temp\\KAP0_BOVIN.swiss"; SequenceIterator iter = (SequenceIterator) SeqIOTools.fileToBiojava(SeqIOConstants.SWISSPROT ,new BufferedReader( new FileReader( seqFile ) ) ); Sequence seq = iter.nextSequence(); SeqIOTools.biojavaToFile( SeqIOConstants.SWISSPROT, System.out, seq ); } org.biojava.bio.symbol.IllegalSymbolException: Symbol ALA not found in alphabet DNA at org.biojava.bio.symbol.AbstractAlphabet.validate(AbstractAlphabet.java:278) at org.biojava.bio.symbol.AlphabetManager$ImmutableWellKnownAlphabetWrapper.val idate(AlphabetManager.java:1423) at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.CharacterTokenization._tokenizeSymbol(CharacterTokeni zation.java:178) at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.CharacterTokenization.tokenizeSymbol(CharacterTokeniz ation.java:191) at org.biojava.bio.symbol.AlphabetManager$WellKnownTokenizationWrapper.tokenize Symbol(AlphabetManager.java:1276) at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.AbstractGenEmblFileFormer.formatTokenBlock(AbstractGe nEmblFileFormer.java:337) at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.EmblFileFormer.addSymbols(EmblFileFormer.java:211) rethrown as org.biojava.bio.symbol.IllegalAlphabetException: DNA not tokenizing at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.EmblFileFormer.addSymbols(EmblFileFormer.java:224) at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.SeqIOEventEmitter.getSeqIOEvents(SeqIOEventEmitter.ja va:125) rethrown as org.biojava.bio.BioError: An internal error occurred processing symbols at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.SeqIOEventEmitter.getSeqIOEvents(SeqIOEventEmitter.ja va:137) at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.EmblLikeFormat.writeSequence(EmblLikeFormat.java:289) at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.EmblLikeFormat.writeSequence(EmblLikeFormat.java:253) at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.SeqIOTools.writeSwissprot(SeqIOTools.java:316) at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.SeqIOTools.seqToFile(SeqIOTools.java:1078) at org.biojava.bio.seq.io.SeqIOTools.biojavaToFile(SeqIOTools.java:870) at com.exsar.test.SerializeTest.main(SerializeTest.java:24) -----Original Message----- From: Mark Southern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:01 PM Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Sequence serialization exception I am getting the following exception when trying to serialize a protein sequence. I am using biojava 1.3. Can anyone please explain to me why? Many thanks, Mark. java.io.InvalidObjectException: Couldn't resolve symbol:SER at org.biojava.bio.symbol.AlphabetManager$WellKnownAtomicSymbol$OPH.readResolve (AlphabetManager.java:1441) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadResolve(ObjectStreamClass.java:911) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1655) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1274) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readArray(ObjectInputStream.java:1603) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1271) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1845) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1769) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1646) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1274) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1845) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadObject(ObjectInputStream.java:452) at org.biojava.bio.seq.impl.SimpleSequence.readObject(SimpleSequence.java:119) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:824) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1746) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1646) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1274) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1845) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadObject(ObjectInputStream.java:452) at org.biojava.bio.seq.ViewSequence.readObject(ViewSequence.java:93) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:824) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1746) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1646) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1274) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1845) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1769) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1646) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1274) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1845) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1769) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1646) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1274) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:324) at java.util.HashMap.readObject(HashMap.java:985) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:824) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1746) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1646) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1274) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1845) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1769) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1646) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1274) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:324) at java.util.HashMap.readObject(HashMap.java:986) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:824) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1746) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1646) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1274) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1845) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1769) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1646) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1274) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:324) at com.exsar.hdex.model.calc.Test.main(Test.java:104) _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l ======================================================================= Attention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments from AgResearch Limited is intended only for the persons or entities to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. 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