GMOD/mimosa — Issue #123: Alphabet detection
Author: leto
Created: 2011-10-15 00:38:20+00:00
State: open
Labels: nice_to_have

Currently, when we autodetect a new sequence file, we assume it is in the nucleotide alphabet, which is wrong. We need a function which, given a FASTA sequence file, does Deep Content Inspection to detect the alphabet. This can be done by ignoring all lines that begin with >, then the alphabet is nucleotide if characters other than ATCG exist.

Wrinkle: What about the N,X, * characters?