[Biocorba-l] SeqFeature -> get_Primary_Seq

[Brad Chapman]

[How should the version be specified -- string, integer, float?]

Alan:
> Unfortunately a float isn't enough - suppose we have version 3.2.1 of a
> database? 

True enough, I didn't think of that.

> There's also people who version by date: 3rd February 2001,
> 03/02/01, ...

Well, you could always mung it as 20010203, but...

> I think I've come round to thinking that it needs to be a string...

No agruments here :-).

> Btw - I'd be keen to see PrimarySeqDB have a 'description' method:
> 
> interface PrimarySeqDB {
> 
>   //...
> 
>   // Return a free-text description of this database.
>   string description();
> 
> }

+1 on this, it seems useful to me.

Brad