[Biojava-l] RNATools.translate

Cox, Greg gcox@netgenics.com
Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:02:04 -0400


We've got GeneticCodes now.  It's just a window onto RNATools, and its
translate method will handle DNA sequences as well.  It will be easy enough
to refactor if we decide that makes more sense.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Down [mailto:td2@sanger.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:45 AM
> To: Cox, Greg
> Cc: biojava-l (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Biojava-l] RNATools.translate
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:38:43AM -0400, Cox, Greg wrote:
> > That sounds good.  Do you envision this just being a facade for
> > RNA/DNATools, or move the functionality into GeneticCodes 
> and forward from
> > RNA/DNATools to the new class?  I can go either way.
> 
> It's not hugely important, so long as all the right convenience
> methods are there.  If we're going to have a class of that
> name, it makes sense that all the genetic-code-table loading
> stuff should live there, so I guess this sounds like the
> latter option...
> 
>   Thomas.
>