[Biojava-l] references

[Mark Schreiber]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Matthew Pocock wrote:

Prehaps a URL object containing the medline abstract or some such thing
would be better unless you really want all the author detail in you
programs / databases.

Mark

> 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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>                                                  (Benny & Joon)
> 
> 
> 
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