[Biojava-l] FW: Location Problems

[Cox, Greg]

There's a architectural problem with how locations are represented.  The
problem is that strandedness is applied at the feature level, but in some
genbank files applies at the sub-location level.  For example, MUSPRCON01
has the feature:

     gene            join(complement(244..1502),L21211.1:1..105,
                     L21222.1:1..141,L21212.1:1..89,L21213.1:1..101,
                     L21214.1:1..185,L21215.1:1..225,L21216.1:1..113,
                     L21217.1:1..116,L21218.1:1..130,L21219.1:1..198,
                     L21223.1:1..137,L21220.1:1..141,L21221.1:1..664)
                     /gene="PC4"

	This highlights two things; first, remote feature probably has to be
re-worked.  It has no concept of strand, and should.  The other is that
there's at least one case where some component parts of a compound location
are on different strands.

	I'm not making any proposals right now, just highlighting the
problem.  Let me know if you have brilliant thoughts.

Greg