[Bioperl-l] *major* error in genbank parser or am i just insane?

[Hilmar Lapp]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ewan Birney [mailto:birney@ebi.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 8:30 AM
> To: Chris Mungall
> Cc: Hilmar Lapp; Elia Stupka; Jason Stajich; bioperl-l@bioperl.org
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] *major* error in genbank parser or am i just
> insane?
> 
[...]
> 
> I do prefer chris' semantics to having to hold onto the 
> difference between
> a parent complement and a child complement - ie, I think we should
> implicitly only allow the complement to happen on simple sequence
> locations and never splits, and genbank with an outer complement is an
> implicit distributive complement and reverse of its components. 
> 

OK. So this is a vote for sublocs on strand -1 and splitloc strandless, right?

Even though this differs from the present implementation, I actually think too this is saner. So my vote goes here too. Jason? (I know we decided otherwise in Canada :o)

	-hilmar