On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Peter Rice<[email protected]> wrote: > > Peter C. wrote: > >> As we are recommending no line wrapping on output this means >> typical FASTQ records would be four lines - so doing the same >> makes sense here too. > > I vote for 4 lines on output.
If we want to allow zero length sequences, then yes, I would also vote for the 4 line output (i.e. blank lines for the sequence and the quality string). > It should be possible to allow zero lines on input depending on > where the '+' check is. Yes, I'm pretty sure a parser could cope with any of the zero length sequence FASTQ examples I gave. Peter _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
