[GMOD-devel] RE: [Open-bio-l] RE: seqfeature

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Thu, 2 May 2002 13:09:15 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 2 May 2002, Lincoln Stein wrote:

> My opinion is that some things, like DNA->DNA, RNA->DNA and
> PROTEIN->DNA alignments are so universally useful (and tricky to deal
> with) that they should be built directly into the schema rather than
> implicitly modeled by external code or ontologies.  Support for
> multiple alignments would be a strong plus, although it runs the risk
> of introducing oddities like pads.

I tend to agree with Lincoln here. Chris?




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