[Bioperl-l] SeqFetcherI (fwd)

[Matthew Pocock]

Ewan Birney wrote:

> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Lincoln Stein wrote:
> 
> 
>> Can't one have a Bio::DB::RandomAccessI connected to a meta database
>> that accepts compound accessions and then dispatches to the correct
>> database?  Or is "gb|A12345" just too ugly for words?

Isn't this what URNs are meant to do?

>> 
> 
> 
> <<Ewan winces>>
> 
> I guess this ok ... the old "lets put *everything* into the
> identifier" does actually have some advantages. 
> 
> (it is at least more justifiable than "lets put an entire database schema
> in the fasta file description line". We've all been there...)
> 
> 
> As usual in bioperl, he who codes it - wins the argument so if you want to
> put in a Bio::DB::Meta object which can register databases and perhaps
> fall back onto "well known" web databases when there are none and guess
> the syntax of identifiers being thrown at it...
> 
> 
> .... you are a better man than I am gungadin!
> 
> 
> e.
> 
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