[suggestion] Document, eventually enforce, input format
telatin opened this issue · 1 comments
telatin commented
I would specify when a tool supports FASTA and FASTQ or only FASTQ as input, including in the description (the --help
page).
It's self-explanatory to have quality-related functions not working on FASTA files. Still, some tools like fasten_sort do not work on FASTA file, but there's no evident mention and no input validation.
I understand that sometimes the philosophy of keeping it simple can be the right thing to do; in this case, just a line in the helpfile would suffice :)