From 88a432884a3be8838102b9b702d95e57d53b5705 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Maffeo <cmaffeo2@illinois.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:46:12 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Sequence reader now ignores blank lines

---
 mrdna/model/dna_sequence.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mrdna/model/dna_sequence.py b/mrdna/model/dna_sequence.py
index 2d120ec..520d3b2 100644
--- a/mrdna/model/dna_sequence.py
+++ b/mrdna/model/dna_sequence.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ def read_sequence_file(sequenceFile=_m13_path):
     with open(sequenceFile) as ch:
         for l in ch:
             l = l.strip().replace(" ", "")
-            if l[0] in (";","#"): continue
+            if len(l) == 0 or l[0] in (";","#"): continue
             seq.extend([c.upper() for c in l])
     return list(seq)
 
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