[Open-bio-l] Re: [Bioperl-l] seq namespace method

[Lincoln Stein]

I just added Bio::IdCollectionI, to support objects that may have several 
identifiers, each assigned by a different authority.  In my opinion, this is 
a different concept from the DBLink system, as we do not want to assume that 
an authority is a database.  It is simply a different naming coordinate.

Lincoln

On Monday 22 July 2002 08:04 am, Ewan Birney wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Michael L. Heuer wrote:
> > Hello Ewan,
> >
> > You seem to have lost the 1 : [1-many] cardinality here -- was that
> > intentional?
>
> I was never a fan of this, claiming that the 1-->Many is better handled by
> the DBLink system already in place.
>
>
> objects in my view should have one identifier, which is the
> authority.namespace they came from...
>
> >    michael
> >
> > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Ewan Birney wrote:
> > > I would claim the right pattern here is to have
> > >
> > >
> > >   Bio::IdentifiableI
> > >
> > > which Bio::PrimarySeqI inheriets from and Bio::PrimarySeq implements.
> > >
> > >
> > >   Bio::IdentifiableI would have slots for namespace, version, id (NB
> > > **no** type) and would be compatiable with the 13C naming convention
> > > thingy to produce I3C style names (so it might also have "authority" as
> > > a slot).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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