Jeff Shannon wrote:
(Plus, if this format might be used for RNA sequences as well as DNA sequences, you've got at least a fifth base to represent, which means you need at least three bits per base, which means only two bases per byte (or else base-encodings split across byte-boundaries).... That gets ugly real fast.)
Not to mention all the IUPAC symbols for incompletely specified bases (e.g. R = A or G).
http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iubmb/misc/naseq.html
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