[Biojava-l] Mutable Features - strand?

[Keith James]

I'm wondering about mutating Features - someone here using biojava has
pointed out that while most properties of generic features are now
mutable (type, type term, location, source etc), strand is not.

While there is a 'flip' method on Strand, there is no way to apply the
flipped Strand back to a feature. Is this an oversight, or is there a
reason why StrandedFeature has this immutable property?

The reason it is requested is for GUI tools where features need to get
bumped around and generally messed with at lot during the annotation
process.

cheers,

Keith

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- Keith James <kdj at sanger.ac.uk> bioinformatics programming support -
- Pathogen Sequencing Unit, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK -