[Bioperl-l] Question: creating an empty Bio::Seq object

[Hilmar Lapp]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ewan Birney [mailto:birney@ebi.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 9:06 AM
> To: Scott Cain
> Cc: bioperl-l@bioperl.org
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Question: creating an empty Bio::Seq object
> 
> 
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> It is likely you will need to write your own implementation 
> class to do 
> this because is sounds like you need a dummy sequence implementation.
> 

Not really. Bio::PrimarySeq and hence Bio::Seq can do this. You just can't write that very well to a rich output format.

	-hilmar