diff --git a/tools/ecoPCRFormat.py b/tools/ecoPCRFormat.py
index b28cda5..3acb26c 100755
--- a/tools/ecoPCRFormat.py
+++ b/tools/ecoPCRFormat.py
@@ -68,8 +68,7 @@ def endLessIterator(endedlist):
         yield x
     while(1):
         yield endedlist[-1]
-    
-    
+   
 class ColumnFile(object):
     
     def __init__(self,stream,sep=None,strip=True,types=None):
@@ -135,7 +134,7 @@ def bsearchTaxon(taxonomy,taxid):
     else:
         return None
         
-        
+    
     
 def readNodeTable(file):
 
@@ -149,7 +148,6 @@ def readNodeTable(file):
                               bool,bool,bool,str))
     print >>sys.stderr,"Reading taxonomy dump file..."
     taxonomy=[[n[0],n[2],n[1]] for n in nodes]
-    
     print >>sys.stderr,"List all taxonomy rank..."    
     ranks =list(set(x[1] for x in taxonomy))
     ranks.sort()
@@ -292,6 +290,7 @@ def emblEntryParser(entry):
         Tx = None
     return {'id':Id,'taxid':Tx,'definition':De,'sequence':Sq}
 
+
 ######################
 
 def parseFasta(seq):
@@ -315,7 +314,6 @@ def fastaEntryParser(entry):
     return {'id':id,'taxid':Tx,'definition':definition,'sequence':seq}
     
 
-    
 def sequenceIteratorFactory(entryParser,entryIterator):
     def sequenceIterator(file):
         for entry in entryIterator(file):