[Pipet Devel] Re: SYNERGY

[Gary Van Domselaar]

"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote:
> 
> 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!

or you could adopt the all-powerful asn.1 nested-data format which
according to the ncbi crew can parse out just about any document ;-)


-- gary
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