[Bioperl-l] Re: [BioSQL-l] seqfeature.display_id

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Lincoln Stein wrote:

> Was there any further discussion on this?  I do use display_id() in the 
> Bio::Graphics module, and am confused about the distinction between 
> display_id() and seqname().

IMNSHO

display_id() == thing to be displayed for this object to a user

seqname() == name of sequence attached - possibly better called seq_id or 
seq_accession_number() or something more obviously "real id like".