[Biojava-l] Symbols are 1 Char?

[Emig, Robin]

	I am trying to create a translation program that is based off of a
codon bias table. I am having a little trouble actually creating the class
though because I thought I'd create it as follows

a Class with the following members
SimpleDistribution (where the alphabet is DNA codons)
Translation Table (where one alphabet is codons and the other is AA's)
The problem is that the alphabets (built from symbols) are only 1 char
elements, ie I can't represent ATG as a symbol. Am I missing something, is
there a way to have a symbol be multiple chars? Even the interface defines
it as a char.
-Robin



Robin Emig
Bioinformatics Specialist
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