Fix for the "Illegal header line in fasta file" error.

csmiller / EMIRGE

EMIRGE reconstructs full length ribosomal genes from short read sequencing data.

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Fix for the "Illegal header line in fasta file" error. #37

Open danillo-alvarenga opened 7 years ago

danillo-alvarenga commented 7 years ago

After downloading SILVA_128_SSURef_Nr99_tax_silva_trunc.fasta.gz, the script tried to read it directly, resulting in the fatal error "Illegal header line in fasta file (not starting with '>' character)." With this change the file is extracted before reading.