[Bioperl-l] Re: [BioSQL-l] molecule & alphabet

[Thomas Down]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:07:59AM -0700, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> I believe biosequence.molecule in the biosql schema maps to 
> PrimarySeqI::alphabet. at least that's what the adaptor code tells.

That's effectively what BioJava's doing with it, too (with
the added caveat that knowing the right alphabet is very,
very, important to the whole BioJava sequence system).

We don't really make anything of the `molecule' field of
EMBL (etc) files at the moment.

    Thomas.