[Biococoa-dev] the decorator pattern

[Alexander Griekspoor]

>>  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.

That wasn't so much the problem. What I meant was having not only the 
additional BCFragment class, but then in addition a BCFragmentDNA, -RNA 
and -Protein/Peptide class. That makes 4 already...


> 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.

Exactly the plan!
>
> Do we need a separate BCUtilDigestProtein, BCUtilDigestDNA?
Nope, not for a reason that I can think of at least.

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

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