[Bioperl-l] SeqI interface

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:02:39 +0000 (GMT)


On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Jason Stajich wrote:

> Shouldn't methods like primary_seq, annotation, add_SeqFeature be part of
> the SeqI interface?  They are part of Seq.pm.  
> I'm trying to be sure that I provide a complete implementation of
> Bio::SeqI in Bio::CorbaClient::Seq.

primary_seq and annotation - yes

add_SeqFeature - no (in my view). Adding a SeqFeature forces all SeqI
objects to become mutable (bad)


> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jason Stajich
> jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
> Center for Human Genetics
> Duke University Medical Center 
> http://www.chg.duke.edu/ 
> 
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