[Bioperl-l] Sequence Features... (hello from Singapore...)

Paul Edlefsen pedlefsen at systemsbiology.org
Mon Feb 24 15:47:28 EST 2003


Ewan Birney wrote:

>  - AnnotationCollection also will have a contains "contains" method,
>which gives sub Annotations. Therefore a Gene will have Transcripts etc
>via this method. By placing this method here, and *not* at the feature
>level (sub_SeqFeatures) we get rid of the ambiguity of "should a
>sub_SeqFeature be strictly covered by its parent". We officially allow the
>containment heirarchy to have *nothing* to do with the location system.
>  
>
Where will the SeqFeatureCollectionI stuff go, then?  Will an 
AnnotationCollectionI *be* a SeqFeatureCollectionI, or *have* one?

:Paul



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