[Bioperl-l] PrimarySeqI::primary_id and IdentifiableI::object_id

[Hilmar Lapp]

Since accession_number maps to IdentifiableI::object_id it appears 
that primary_id() has no equivalent in IdentifiableI.

Does everyone feel OK with this?

I thought primary_id would be the slot where databank identifiers 
go, e.g. the GI number for genbank seqs. Say you get a dbxref with 
only the GI number (which I don't think is far fetched), how would 
you match this to your collection of IdentifiableIs? I.e., how would 
you ask a server expecting an LSID for the entry? You ask a mapper 
first to return the accession number?

Or is this not how the process was meant to be?

	-hilmar
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