[Biojava-l] Newbie questions

[Mark Schreiber]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Thomas Down wrote:

> 
> The easiest way to get your string-like sequences into BioJava
> is to use something like:
> 
>   String seqString = "gatcgga";
>   Alphabet dnaAlpha = DNATools.getAlphabet();
>   SymbolParser parser = dnaAlpha.getParser("token");
>   SymbolList seq = parser.parse(seqString);
> 
> Does that make some kind of sense?
> 

I was just thinking that this is a bit ugly and requires four lines of
code to do something that sould imho be achievable in less. Would it be a
good idea (prehaps for a later release) to have a class called something
like CommonTasks with static methods to implement the above task while
hiding the background shananigins from general view?

Just a thought,

Mark

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