[Bioperl-l] Proposal: SemanticMapping and call for info on GeneObjects

Hilmar Lapp hlapp@gnf.org
Mon, 13 May 2002 13:22:22 -0700


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> From: Ewan Birney [mailto:birney@ebi.ac.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: Jason Stajich
> Cc: dblock@gnf.org; Hilmar Lapp; Bioperl
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Proposal: SemanticMapping and call 
> for info on
> GeneObjects
> 
> 
[...]
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>    I am tempted to advocate a more standard case where start/end is
> relative to the transcript virtual cDNA.

This is what I would try to do, too. Can't speak from a lot of practical experience here as for feasibility ...

	-hilmar
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> The drawback of this 
> is that it
> ends up being more complex to - for example - figure out 
> where the start
> exon is and in cases where you are *building* genes computationally
> produces some nasty calculation overheads.
> 
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> 
> ewan
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