[Biojava-l] RNATools.translate

Cox, Greg gcox@netgenics.com
Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:38:43 -0400


That sounds good.  Do you envision this just being a facade for
RNA/DNATools, or move the functionality into GeneticCodes and forward from
RNA/DNATools to the new class?  I can go either way.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Down [mailto:td2@sanger.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:57 AM
> To: Cox, Greg
> Cc: 'Thomas Down'; Keith James; biojava-l (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Biojava-l] RNATools.translate
> 
> 
> I guess there's always option 3:
> 
>   - Add a new `placeholder' class called something like
>     GeneticCodes, which becomes the new common calling
>     point for getting the translation tables, and also
>     the convenience `translate' methods.
> 
> Once the method is there, it makes a lot of sense to have
> something that can handle both DNA and RNA.  I must admit
> I like this option...
> 
>    Thomas.