[Biojava-l] FramedFeature interface

Emig, Robin Robin.Emig@maxygen.com
Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:21:06 -0700


	So what your saying is that if you have the sequence ATGGAC, that
the first A is position 1 in the sequence/symbol list, but position 0 in the
frame/phase. I realize that 0,1,2 may be the most common convention, but
does anyone else see how that can get confusing?
-Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Ewan Birney [mailto:birney@ebi.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 9:09 AM
To: Emig, Robin
Cc: 'Mark Schreiber'; Hilmar Lapp; Schreiber, Mark; biojava-l (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [Biojava-l] FramedFeature interface


On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Emig, Robin wrote:

> You do realize that many of the other classes in biojava are 1 based
rather
> than 0 based. Lets keep one standard, I don't care which. Having some
> functions 1 based and some 0 based will drive many insane, in fact I've
> already lost a developer to the current standard being 1 based :).
> -Robin
>

This is not the 1/0 start position dichotomy, but the frame/phase
definition. 0,1,2 is the most common convention.