Bioperl: Code reuse for EMBL-like data

[Ewan Birney]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Kris Boulez wrote:

> I need to parse sequences which I get from a GCG database (using
> 'fetch'). The data is very 'embl-like', it only has a few additional
> tags.
> 
> I can just make a copy of embl.pm and add the additional fields, but I
> wonder if there isn't a better way of "code reuse".

I think this is the best way. If this becomes a common occurence we can
start putting in hooks into embl.pm or doing some inheritance stuff.
This is going to get messy very fast.

Basic rule:

New data format -> new SeqIO module.



copy-and-paste is not so bad here. (well... reasonably bad, but not
dreadful).


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