[Biojava-l] RNATools.translate

[Ewan Birney]

On 5 Sep 2001, Keith James wrote:

> 
> is needed. After the various Perl APIs it made me do a double-take.


I claim this is silly. In terms of Bioinformatics most translation is DNA
representation --> Protein. Despite the fact that biology has a RNA
intermeadaite this is a meaningless wrinkle for 99% of use cases for
"translate" in terms of bioinformatics (which is interested in the
information flow, not the physical molecules)


Logical extension. You should do


   RNA.add_methyl_cap(CapObject)

before allowing it to translate ;)