[Bioperl-l] Testing BioPerl objects for equality

[Peter van Heusden]

I've got an idea for testing where I'd like to 'round-trip' through 
SeqIO: read in from a file on disk, write out again with write_seq() and 
then read in the file written by write_seq() and compare the two 
sequence objects. If they aren't equal, it means we've got a problem.

To make this work requires some kind of equals() method on Seq, 
SeqFeature, etc. This doesn't seem to be there at the moment - or am I 
missing something? Maybe there should probably be some kind of 
Bio::ComparableI interface which provides an equals() abstract method.

Peter