[Bioperl-l] Copying features

Marc Logghe Marc.Logghe at devgen.com
Mon May 12 23:30:28 EDT 2003


Hi Hilmar,
<snip>
> The more difficult exercise is to process the annotation and features
> correctly after a revcomp()/trunc()/translate(). Massaging the
> coordinates will need to be aware of fuzzy and split locations if it
> shall be provided by the toolkit. Also, features may be nested, so the
> processing needs to be recursive. I'd be glad if someone 
> steps up to the
> plate, writes a comprehensive test case that tests all reasonably
> possible scenarios and code that passes all those tests. It's 
> more than
> a quick fix for the generic case, believe me. Otherwise it would have
> been in there since years.

Oh, I am a believer all right. Got my fingers burnt a while ago ;-)
AFAIK, even EMBOSS is not touching this issue...

 


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