It's a compressed binary format. I doubt BioJava would be able to read it without a lot of effort as the current parser framework is set up for text input only.
Richard Holland Bioinformatics Specialist GIS extension 8199 --------------------------------------------- This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately. Please do not copy or use it for any purpose, or disclose its content to any other person. Thank you. --------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; biojava-l@biojava.org > Subject: Re: [Biojava-l] reading nib sequence files > > > In short, no. > > Do you have a description of the format? It may not be too > hard to adapt > an existing parser. > > - Mark > > > > > > Dan Baggott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 01/21/2005 07:02 AM > Please respond to baggott2 > > > To: biojava-l@biojava.org > cc: (bcc: Mark Schreiber/GP/Novartis) > Subject: [Biojava-l] reading nib sequence files > > > Does anyone hava any java code for reading from .nib nucleotide > sequence files (ie what's used by the UCSC folks)? I know Jim Kent > et al. have some utilities (I think in C) for reading from nib files > but am wondering about java... > > Thanks, > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > Biojava-l mailing list - Biojava-l@biojava.org > http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biojava-l mailing list - Biojava-l@biojava.org > http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l > _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - Biojava-l@biojava.org http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
