[Biocorba-l] SeqFeature -> get_Primary_Seq

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Brad Chapman wrote:

> Alan:
> > Btw, the version number of a database - should it be a 'string' or an
> > 'integer'??? Currently, it's the latter - But I'm now not so sure if
> > that's appropriate...

I am a big believe that version numbers should be integers such that you
know that if you have version 1 and version 2 you should look at version
2.

otherwise version numbers become just "volatile id" and less useful.

But... it is one to discuss...


 > 
> Well, I still prefer strings :-). But if it's going to be a number, it
> seems like you should at least be able to have versions like 0.7 or
> 1.3, so I guess it would be better as a float. I don't know, you
> probably need the most strict versioning for the EMBL database -- what 
> do you want?
> 
> Brad
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