support for piping from stdin and/or for gzip-compressed input files

[jvollme]

Sequence data should mostly be in (gzip) compressed form, and uncompressing and re-compressing them for every analyses step is tedious. The majority of bioinformatic tools can either read compressed files or allow piping from stdin (enabling the temporal uncompression only in memory using e.g. zcat). As far as I could see tRNAscan-SE and trnascan do neither, right?

Could you add an option to pipe from stdin? That would make it much easier to include in automatic pipelines...

[patriciaplchan]

Thanks for your suggestion. We will add this as a feature request for future versions.