[Bioperl-l] 'virtual' seqs

[Lincoln Stein]

Bio::DB::GFF::RelSegment?

Lincoln

On Thursday 20 June 2002 02:57 pm, Jason Stajich wrote:
> We are processing datafiles - bsml,game, (agave?) documents where it is
> possible to just know the length of the sequence but not have any actual
> sequence data associated.  I think we should have sequence objects which
> can handle this - they would have a length, but seq() would warn and
> return undef.  We need one that would implement Bio::Seq::RichSeqI
> interface - call it VirtualRichSeq ? Perhaps we'll need the equivalent
> PrimaryVirtualSeq and VirtualSeq?
>
> Can someone think of a better name, I don't want to confuse with Ensembl
> VirtualXX objects?  This would be implemeted in Bio::Seq:: namespace.
>
> -jason

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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