[Bioc-devel] BSgenome forge file input file restrictions

[Hahne, Florian]

Hi all,
I was wondering whether some of the rather arbitrary restrictions on input files for the process of forging as new Bsgenome package could be liftet. In particular:

Why do we need all chromosomes in individual files? Couldn’t the function be smart enough to just extract the relevant bits from a single file containing all chromosomes? Or even from several such files?

Why are gzipped files not allowed? Pretty much all tools in Biostrings seem to be able to deal with gzipped fasta files these days.

Thanks,
Florian

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