[Bioperl-l] Interest in Bio::Community modules

[Fields, Christopher J]

On Nov 28, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote:

> And now to the list too,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Florent Angly <florent.angly at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> The idea is to implement these modules in Moose to teach myself Moose. The
>> members of a community could be a sequence (Bio::SeqI), a species (Bio::S),
>> an arbitrary string or even other things. I am not quite sure if Bioperl
>> provide facilities to attach some arbitrary information to an object.
>> 
>> Any interest? Ideas? Comments?
>> 
> 
> Sounds like a good use-case for roles, maybe even parametric roles.
> 
> Leon

Yep, agree totally.  It would be a good replacement in most cases for the BioI interfaces.  

(see also, the Biome project, which I'm slooooooowly working on again, on github)

chris