[Biocorba-l] Annotations

[Juha Muilu]

How people feel about the separation of Annotation holder from the 
Sequence (Annotatable) ?

+ It can be useful if we later need new get/set methods for the
annotations and sequence features. The Sequence "line" may become over
exploited if we start to extend it because of new annotation methods.

- It is another indirection more. 

Do we need composite annotations? For those we can have new annotation
interface which inherits from the Annotation and AnnotationHolder. 

By quickly looking the GO annotations, for example, can be expressed
using the composite annotations. Does this work also in practice? In the
bioPerl mailing list were recently lot of discussion about the GO stuff.
Did you reached the consensus?

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