[Biocorba-l] Annotation and anys

[Ewan Birney]

The lack of any's is a good thing. Thanks for being flexible on this Juha.


I still don't like too much SeqFeature inherieting from Annotation -
SeqFeature is 90% of the time a very small, compact set of information
which people have lots of (100,000 or so). Although the interface does not
mean that the data behind the interface has to be there at all, it does
mean that systems that are tyring to handle - say - storing of seq
features have a real challenge.


Could we split this up into:


    SimpleSeqFeatureI

    AnnotatedSeqFeatureI : SimpleSeqFeatureI


I believe the restriction to the more simple type will be very useful for
both clients and servers to indicate that they have "just" got a
seqfeature.



I'll need to read again the whole IDL but I think we are iterating down to
the last serious points ;)








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