[Bioperl-l] SimpleAlign - get_seq_by_id

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

The main reason it has not been Bio::SeqAlign is that sequence ID not 
necessarily a unique identifier in a MSA. Multiple regions of the sequence 
defined by one ID can be in one.

The current code returns only the more or less randomly selected first 
Bio::LocatebleSeqI object with that ID. Should we make it context sensitive 
and return an array of sequences in array context? 

That brings up an other question: After the change, the get_seq_by_id() will 
behave differently from all other instances of that method, so should it be 
renamed to reflect that?

      -Heikkki

On Thursday 23 October 2008 21:29:20 Jason Stajich wrote:
> I added get_seq_by_id to Bio::SimpleAlign to allow retrieval of a
> particular sequence from the alignment by ID. Not sure why this didn't
> exist before.
>
> -jason
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