[Biojava-l] FW: Location Problems

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Cox, Greg wrote:

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

It sucks ;). Have fun!


It is this stuff (plus the fuzzies) that forced bioperl into this whole
nasty location object thang. It means inside Bioperl there is just a whole
truck load of implicit recursion, possible crazy object structures and
ability to represent the same about 4 different ways due to the need to
round-trip the whole of GenBank/EMBL.


Yuk Yuk Yuk....


I've always been attracted to a model where it is


  Feature <---- Proper_Feature
   ^
   |____________UnparsableGenBankEmblFeature

The UnparsableGenBankEmblFeature would just have one method called


   location_string()
   
;)


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