[Biojava-l] RefSeq bioJava parser problem

[Matthew Pocock]

wanner.de@pg.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Appreciate the responses to the refSeq question. We've been able to put togther
> a reliable parser using the example in TestRefSeqPrt.

Great! Would you be interested in contributing this to BioJava once you 
are happy with it?

> 
> Have an additional question now.   Are there any utility methods within bioJava
> that can be used to handle parsed values that are returned by bioJava in list
> form.
> 
> For example the following value was returned from bioJava for a sequence
> annotation with key MEDLINE:
> 
>      [98127055, 99357812]
> 
> 
> Another example is the value that was returned from bioJava for a feature annotation with key  db_xref:
> 
>      [LocusID:946, MIM:604405]
> 
> bioJava does good work in accumulating the information together and placing it under a specific annotation, does
> anyone know if there are method to extract listMembers or parameter/value pairs already available in bioJava?
> 

Are you asking if there is a document stating the well-known property 
names and their value ranges? If so, this does not yet exist, but could 
be represented by AnnotationType objects. It would be nice to build a 
little vocabulary of properties and their legal values...

Matthew

> thx,
> Dave
>