[Bioperl-l] RE: How to check mRNA

[Ewan Birney]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Heikki Lehvaslaiho wrote:

> Sounds like breaking a good old system. 
> 
> Why not :
> moltype() eq alphabet()
> 
> molecule() could be a shortcut into source/sequenced_mol
>     and is it is not defined use the value from ID/Locus line
> 
> I am being difficult?


So moltype() ne molecule() - aren't we setting ourselves up for confusion
here?


I appreciate the need for backward compatibility. 


What about

  ->biological_molecule()