What's needed? / Use cases

• Analyzed about 20 SWISS-PROT parsers

  • Count the number of records in a file
  • Index the records (extract identifier and start/end pos)
  • Convert to FASTA (extract three fields)
  • Build a generic data structure (extract a dozen fields)
  • Build a full data structure (extract all semantic data)
  • Convert to HTML (add links, preserve presentation)
  • Validate the format is correct
  • Identify the format

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