[Biocorba-l] Composite annotations (was: BioObjects)

Juha Muilu muilu@ebi.ac.uk
Thu, 31 May 2001 14:35:45 +0100


Thanks Thomas for the correction! I made a mistake because in BSANE
Features inherit from the Annotation and I was trying to achieve your
feature composition where Feature inherits from the FeatureHolder
perhaps in too general level...

How people model the tree like annotations i.e. like the GO stuff ?


Juha



Thomas Down wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:07:10PM +0100, Juha Muilu wrote:
> >
> > >    Annotation should definitely *not* inheriet from Annotable - this sort
> > > of recursion is going to lead to tears v. quickly (if BioJava is doing
> > > this then they are going to be heading into trouble as well... ;)).
> > >
> >
> > I took this from bioJava just to be compatible with them. I agree that
> > the recursion can be misused.
> 
> Uh, this isn't in BioJava.  Never has been, never will be.
> I think there must have been some confusion here.  The only
> super-interface of Annotation is Changeable.
> 
>    Thomas (I'll take a look at the models before commenting
>            on other points)

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