[Bioperl-l] GFF and LocatableSeq refactoring

Hilmar Lapp hlapp at gmx.net
Tue Aug 18 15:46:55 UTC 2009


On Aug 17, 2009, at 7:42 PM, Robert Buels wrote:

> I can see how this might be a good idea, or it might be overkill.  
> Anybody have thoughts on having feature _sources_ strongly typed  
> with ontology terms?


It's how BioSQL and Chado would store it anyway. I'm not sure whether  
GFF3 requires it, possibly not.

But when you make everything else ontology-typed, why exempt one  
property that also stands to benefit from more predictable values?

	-hilmar

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