[Biojava-l] references

[Matthew Pocock]

Dear all,

References to literature are things that need representing in EMBL,
GENBANK, SwissProt entries (and almost certainly in other contexts). It
would be nice if we could supply a Reference interface under
org.biojava.utils - what should the interface contain?

interface Reference {
  // a List of Author objects
  List getAuthors();

  String getJournal();
  int getVolume();
  int getStartPage();
  int getEndPage();
}

interface Author {
  char [] getInitials();
  String getSurname();
}

What is missing? What shouldn't be here? Is it needed at all?

Matthew

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