[Biocorba-l] SeqFeature -> get_Primary_Seq

Matthew Pocock mrp@sanger.ac.uk
Thu, 08 Feb 2001 17:35:57 +0000


> The SeqFeature interface includes a method 'seq_primary_id()' that returns
> the primary identifier for the Seq that this SeqFeature belongs to.
> 
> For a little while longer, I'm going to continue my crusade for SeqFeature
> to be naive about the actual sequence from whence it came outside the
> range of the feature (other than via a primary identifier!)  :)
> 
> 
> cheers,
> alan

An understandable view - solves issues with circular references & object 
ownership for naive implementations. Do bioperl features hold references 
to their 'containing' sequences?

Just to give my ID crusade - they are of no meaning without knowing 
which database to look them up in - the tuple {ID, SeqDB} is what is 
realy required if you use ID at all. Also, there is the issue of wether 
resolving the ID gives you back a CORBA object that is equivalent or 
identical.

Matthew