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From: JREES@vax.oxford.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: bug in tfasta
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Date: 24 Jan 91 12:12:00 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?
>--
>Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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>"Arcane?  Did you say arcane?  It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"

Whether or not there are short sequences I cannot tell, but the bug was
certainly there, as shown by an (accidentaly) zero length sequence in EMBL one
week last year (only one week) which crashed the GCG version - this was
fixed by GCG, I guess the info on the bug did not filter back, appologies Bill,
I should have alerted you also.

Jasper Rees

JRees@Vax.Oxford.ac.uk
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