rcedgar / muscle

Multiple sequence and structure alignment with top benchmark scores scalable to thousands of sequences. Generates replicate alignments, enabling assessment of downstream analyses such as trees and predicted structures.
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Minor: interface change from 3.8 to 5.1 may benefit from more helpful error message #46

Closed jweile closed 1 year ago

jweile commented 1 year ago

This is very minor: Using the old syntax muscle -in input.fasta -out output.aln is not compatible anymore with version 5, but the error message does not point in the right direction. Instead of

Invalid command line
Unknown option in

It may be helpful to show something like

The option `--in` is no longer supported. Please use `--align` instead.
rcedgar commented 1 year ago

Good idea thanks for the feedback.