[Biococoa-dev] Factories

[Alexander Griekspoor]

> Every time an amino acid representation is not present, initAminoAcids 
> gets called and makes a representation for each amino acid. This just 
> appeared redundant to me. So I started to read some more, and found 
> that the combination of Singleton/Flyweight/Factory patterns is a 
> widely used approach in OOP, especially when you deal with a large 
> amount of similar objects.

Yep, the trick here is that you assure that whichever of the aminoacids 
is asked for first, all of them are created at once, and this will not 
be called again.

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