[Biocorba-l] BSANE and bioCORBA

[Alan Robinson]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Juha Muilu wrote:

> Ewan Birney wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Alan Robinson wrote:
> > 
> > >  1) We need a method to navigate from feature to sequence. But what should
> > >     this return? [And should we allow for mutable sequences?]
> > >
> > >       a) The ID of the parent (but which ID?: display, primary, or
> > >          accession)
> > >       b) An object reference to the parent Seq object
> > >
> > >       I prefer 1a using primary id (since normally primary_id ==
> > >       accession_number, and it maybe allows for some degree of sequence
> > >       mutability).
> > 
> > I am firmly in the (b) camp. Often the subroutine which gets a sequence
> > feature has no way of getting a database object in which to use (a). I
> > vote with all my fingers and all my toes for objects coming back.
> > 
> 
> I also like the b solution. The argument is valid.

OK - I now quite happily go along with 1b too.


Alan.