[Bioperl-l] GFF and LocatableSeq refactoring

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Scott Cain wrote:

> Additionally, some applications (SynBrowse comes to mind) overload  
> the source value and require them to conform to a certain syntax.
>
> So, what I'm trying to say is, source should probably just stay a  
> simple string.


I would rephrase that to source should probably retain the possibility  
of using made-up strings.

You mention one example yourself, and there have been others in a  
recent thread on BioSQL [1], for why the option to have predictable,  
structured values with attached semantics could be very useful.

	-hilmar

[1] http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biosql-l/2009-August/001602.html

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