[Pipet Devel] Re: SYNERGY

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga wrote:
> 
> Example, image we want to support 4 file formats:
> 
> genbank - internal
> pdb - internal
> fasta - internal
> bsml - internal
> 
> vs converters between the same 4 formats:
> 
> genbank - pdb
> genbank - fasta
> genbank - bsml
> pdb - fasta
> pdb - bsml
> fasta - bsml

Ah, but you really only need 3 (vs. 4 for an internal format)!

  genbank - pdb
  genbank - fasta
  genbank - bsml

Because you can do this:

  pdb - genbank - fasta
  pdb - genbank - bsml
  fasta - genbank - bsml

To get the other 3!

Tee hee hee :-)


Cheers.
Jeff
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