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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: bug in tfasta
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Date: 23 Jan 91 21:31:43 GMT
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wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) writes:
-> [a bug] causes the program to core-dump when it encounters a DNA sequence
-> shorter than 5 nt.  (Apparently there are several very short sequences in
-> recent releases from genbank.)

	Wait a minute.  Are you trying to tell me that there are loci in
GenBank that are 4 nt or shorter?
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