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Add ? to missing FASTA fields #5

Closed trvrb closed 6 years ago

trvrb commented 6 years ago

Currently flora downloads FASTA headers as:

>AY628204|Z148||L|na||

Missing attributes shouldn't be ||. Fauna uses ? for these missing values. Flora download should look like:

>AY628204|Z148|?|L|na|?|

I like ? because this is what BEAST uses for missing attributes, but I would be very happy with null or NA as well. But it should be something.