Fastx parser vs Fasta/Fastq parsers

[schorlton]

Hi,

Thanks for the fantastic tool! I'm trying to figure out what the difference is between pyfastx.Fastx and pyfastx.Fasta(build_index=False)/pyfastx.Fastq(build_index=False) for FASTA and FASTQ iteration, respectively. They seem to have almost identical functionality with slightly different arguments. Is there a performance difference? Is there any difference in validation of underlying data? Any insight is appreciated.

Thanks!

[lmdu]

The implementation of pyfastx.Fastx is the same with pyfastx.Fasta(build_index=False). They may have the same performance. pyfastx.Fastx is a new and simple api for sequence iteration, and can detect the input sequence file format (fasta or fastq).

[schorlton]

Got it, thanks!