seqan/seqan — pull request #585 by weese (2014-10-07 17:35:34+00:00)
Title: [FEATURE] new I/O module

In the new I/O module we:
* introduced exceptions for more informative error messages
* support for gzip, bzip2, bgzf compression under one interface (VirtualStream)
* introduced the SmartFile as an efficient and easy-to-use high-level interface file to access different formatted files under a unified interface
* auto-detection based on extensions/content and support for pipes