[Jalview-discuss] Jalview can't load files containing features with unknown begin or end positions

[Jim Procter]

Hi Eric.

Eric Jain wrote:
> Perhaps there is no good way to display such features in Jalview, but 
> it might be preferable to skip such features, instead of aborting the 
> parsing?
Actually, features with no start and end position are coped with from 
other formats - in particular its part of the DAS standard.

The gff file contains periods in the blank positions (Is that actually 
part of the standard or would they normally be left blank?).  Jalview is 
trying to parse the field as a number and bailing out when that fails.

A couple of additional try/catch blocks fixed the problem - and this 
will be in the next release.

Jim