[Bioperl-l] Re: Handling gff3 Target and Dbxref tags through FeatureIO

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Thursday, October 21, 2004, at 11:09  AM, Allen Day wrote:

> but i don't understand the
> Bio::Location::CoordinatePolicy yet, it looks like it affects calls to
> start() and end().
>

You only need to worry about this for fuzzy locations. The coordinate 
policy in effect essentially determines what you consider as the start 
coordinate for a location like <1..10 and similarly for the end 
coordinate. At the time consensus could not be reached and so we 
designed this API that lets you have your way if you can implement it 
as a policy object. There's some default ones two for the most common 
cases (use max, use min, etc).

	-hilmar

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