[Biocorba-l] bioperl/biocorba 0.2 update

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:14:13 +0000 (GMT)


On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Jason Stajich wrote:

> Spent some time with it this weekend, will see what I can close off, and
> make the Feb 5 bioperl deadline...I have implemented the new IDL for the
> server code. 
> Now I am having to think about things like having to write both a
> PrimarySeqIterator and a SeqFeatureIterator when perl doesn't really care
> about the objects inside.. can I get away with
> returing a single generic Vector object?  

I should think so - interface inheritance is very forgiving...

> 
> When calling the iterator method in Vector I should be able to refer to
> the storage in the Vector object, but now I can't take advantage of the
> fact that a SeqDB can return a PrimarySeqIterator...  Anyways, I guess
> I'll just implement the complete solution and we can work on optimization
> as a second tier.
> 
> Jason Stajich
> jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
> Center for Human Genetics
> Duke University Medical Center 
> http://www.chg.duke.edu/ 
> 
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