| 1 | = Random ideas from Jan Aerts = |
| 2 | Mind that this is *very* incomplete. Just to help my really bad memory. |
| 3 | As the issue is interoperability of the Bio* toolkits, we don't have to synchronise the toolkits at the object level, but rather at the interface level. So let's see if each toolkit reads and writes a GenBank/Fasta/... serialization in the same way. Input can either be an original GenBank/Fasta/... file or a dbfetch from any database. |
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| 5 | * What should be conserved: |
| 6 | * Tags |
| 7 | * for a sequence: lower/uppercase |
| 8 | |
| 9 | * What not necessarily should be conserved: |
| 10 | * for a sequence over multiple lines: length of each lin |