[Biococoa-dev] the decorator pattern

[Koen van der Drift]

On Sep 11, 2004, at 3:14 AM, Alexander Griekspoor wrote:

>  I think you're right Koen, this is indeed better than further 
> subclassing BCSequence. Certainly because it would mean you can nicely 
> keep things separated for all kinds of manipulations through the 
> addition of single wrapper objects instead of getting tons of 
> different BCSequence subclasses.
>

We already have some in BioCocoa: BCUtilDNATranslator, 
BCUtilMassCalculator.


Anyway, I am working now on the digest code, and want to make sure that 
I get the design right.

1. BCUtilDigest is fed a BCSequence and enzyme information and does the 
digest either by an external trigger or internally.

2. It returns an NSArray of BCFragment objects which are wrappers 
conatining all info: the sequence, the original location, the enzyme.

Do we need a separate BCUtilDigestProtein, BCUtilDigestDNA?


We have to make sure BTW, that we use the 1-based counting when dealing 
with subsequences.


cheers,

- Koen.