[Bioperl-l] proposed change to Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::*

[Paul Edlefsen]

Chris Mungall wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Lincoln Stein wrote:
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>>My Bio::DB::GFF::Feature class extends sub_SeqFeature() so that you can
>>specify a primary_tag type:
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>>	@parts = $feature->sub_SeqFeature('Exon');
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>sounds useful, but I'm worried about overloading existing methods with
>different behaviours. Maybe a different method name?
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>Should this be consolidated in CollectionI? On the dev branch?
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It is consolodated there already.  The features(..) method can take type arguments, among other things.  It's aliased to get_SeqFeature and sub_SeqFeature for backwards compatability.

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