[Biojava-dev] Location Unions

[Schreiber, Mark]

Hi -

Currently location unions are performed by merging contiguous blocks and
making compound locations where nescessary.

Ie this list of locations:

[1,20] [20,50] [45,90] forms the location {[1,20], [20,90]}.

One problem with this is that it doesn't allow the recovery of the
individual component locations through the block iterator. Would it be
better if the union gave the following

{[1,20],[20,50],[45,90]} I believe that such a beast would still behave
the same as the location above (although slightly heavier) and give the
benefit of locating its sub components. Any thoughts? Would this be
horribly inefficient?

Mark

Mark Schreiber PhD
Bioinformatics
AgResearch Invermay
PO Box 50034
Mosgiel
New Zealand
 
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