[Bioperl-l] Bio::SeqFeatureI issues

Lincoln Stein lstein@cshl.org
Tue, 1 Oct 2002 07:18:01 -0400


I use seqname() and seq().

Lincoln

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 06:32 pm, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> Neither seqname() nor seq() nor entire_seq() are on SeqFeatureI, but
> I'm sure are used all over the place as if they were (in fact, they
> are even used in decorating methods on SeqFeatureI).
>
> Somehow we've got used to treat everything in SeqFeature::Generic as
> present in every implementation of SeqFeatureI ...
>
> Not good. I suggest to promote all three to Bio::SeqFeatureI.
> Similarly, attach_seq() should also be promoted. Anyone got
> objections, or has anyone thoughts why this may be a bad idea?
>
> 	-hilmar

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