[Bioperl-l] Bio::SeqFeatureI issues

[Ewan Birney]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> Neither seqname() nor seq() nor entire_seq() are on SeqFeatureI, but
> I'm sure are used all over the place as if they were (in fact, they
> are even used in decorating methods on SeqFeatureI).

I thought all three were in SeqFeatureI - these should be for sure.

>
> Somehow we've got used to treat everything in SeqFeature::Generic as
> present in every implementation of SeqFeatureI ...
>
> Not good. I suggest to promote all three to Bio::SeqFeatureI.
> Similarly, attach_seq() should also be promoted. Anyone got
> objections, or has anyone thoughts why this may be a bad idea?
>

attach_seq() i think is about object creation/modification, and so is
implementation specific. Do you think it has to be in the interface?



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