[Bioperl-l] bug #249

[Alan Robinson]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Ewan Birney wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jason Stajich wrote:
> 
> > Is
> > 
> > FT   CDS             join(50,101..102)
> > 
> > even a valid location?

It's valid - This location example is included in the EMBL Feature Table
definition:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Documentation/FT_definitions/feature_table.html#location


  3.5.3 Location examples
  "The following is a list of common location descriptors with their
  meanings: 

     Location                  Description   

     467                       Points to a single base in the presented
                               sequence 

     340..565                  Points to a continuous range of bases
                               bounded by and including the starting and
                               ending bases

     [...]


For porting the EMBL database to use the BioCorba-0.2 IDL (which has a
similar model of locations to bioperl), I expanded your example to become:

  FT   CDS             join(50..50,101..102)


alan.


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