On 24 Jan 2005, at 02:48, Richard HOLLAND wrote:
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.
Nib support probably wouldn't fit into the text-oriented parsing framework, but I'm sure it could be supported somehow if there was demand. A quick google doesn't turn up any format documentation, but Jim Kent's IO code is at:
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/src/unzipped/lib/nib.c
One interesting way to handle this might be to open the nib file as a MappedByteBuffer, and back a SymbolList directly using that -- potentially giving us an efficient way of working with huge sequences.. Any interest in that?
Thomas.
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