[Bioperl-l] SeqFetcherI (fwd)

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Elia Stupka wrote:

> > The more I think of it the more I am clear that RandomAccessI is the right
> > thing. I have been thinking about putting efetch/pfetch behind this for a
> > while...
> 
> Still wondering... this means that one RandomAccessI object can only
> return sequences from one database at a time, because it has to pretend to
> be conencted to a biological database whether file-based or RDB, while the
> beauty of bioperl-db (and the uglyness of SRS) is to be able to fetch
> sequences from a variety of databases...

This can be handled fine. 

In SRS you have to put the database name in - perhaps it is a parameter
rather than a parameter to a constructor but this is ok to work around.

ditto bioperl-db

bioperl-db has a Bio::DB::RandomAccessI compliant object at the moment.


> 
> Elia
> 


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