[Bioperl-l] SeqFetcherI (fwd)

[Lincoln Stein]

If I take on one more off-topic task, it will be the end of me (or
maybe the end has already come!)

Lincoln

Ewan Birney writes:
 > On Mon, 21 May 2001, Lincoln Stein wrote:
 > 
 > > Can't one have a Bio::DB::RandomAccessI connected to a meta database
 > > that accepts compound accessions and then dispatches to the correct
 > > database?  Or is "gb|A12345" just too ugly for words?
 > > 
 > 
 > <<Ewan winces>>
 > 
 > I guess this ok ... the old "lets put *everything* into the
 > identifier" does actually have some advantages. 
 > 
 > (it is at least more justifiable than "lets put an entire database schema
 > in the fasta file description line". We've all been there...)
 > 
 > 
 > As usual in bioperl, he who codes it - wins the argument so if you want to
 > put in a Bio::DB::Meta object which can register databases and perhaps
 > fall back onto "well known" web databases when there are none and guess
 > the syntax of identifiers being thrown at it...
 > 
 > 
 > ... you are a better man than I am gungadin!
 > 
 > 
 > e.

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