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FASTA parser doesn't support comments

Open flipchart opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments

I realize comments aren't documented (and thus probably not supported by) the NCBI docs linked in the parser file, but I feel this is something simple to support and makes the parser a little less strict as comments are simply ignored. Happy to send a PR for the feature if it's something you're interested in

flipchart avatar Feb 13 '16 11:02 flipchart

Do you mean comment lines that start with a ";"? I have never seen FASTA files like that before, but if you wanted to submit a PR I can't think why it wouldn't be accepted as a feature (probably makes the most sense to store any comments in the metadata object).

evolvedmicrobe avatar Feb 13 '16 19:02 evolvedmicrobe

Usually in the header, but I can't see any reason not to support it either.

jamesmhogan avatar Feb 14 '16 01:02 jamesmhogan

Always happy to see features extended!

evolvedmicrobe avatar Feb 23 '16 05:02 evolvedmicrobe