[Bioperl-l] request for new feature types: Attn. esp. Hilmarand Ewan

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

I agree.

I've already created a set of classes inheriting from
Bio::SeqFeature::Generic. All the instatiable classes inherit from
Bio::Variation::VariantI and have primary tag 'Variation'.

The same should be a practical approach to gene features. E.g.: The
holder object can collect them into a single array (add_genefeature)
and get methods pick the right ones (each_exon, each_intron,...). 


	-Heikki
 
Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> I think that making inherieted SeqFeatures is *definitely* the way to
> go. This is what we do (heavily) inside Ensembl.
> 
> Special methods like "translate" or "phase" are v. useful.
> 
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