[Biococoa-dev] More on BCSymbolSets

John Timmer jtimmer at bellatlantic.net
Thu Mar 3 22:07:23 EST 2005


>> I agree that symbolSets will be different for each instance. But the
>> sequenceType, if we keep it in addition of the symbolSet (for the
>> reason above), then it will be always the same for all instances of a
>> class.
>> Regarding the naming conventions, BCSequenceDNA for the class,
>> BCDNASequence for the type, it is indeed quite confusing; how about
>> BCSequenceTypeDNA et al.?
> 
> *If* we decide to keep it, that would indeed be better, yes.
> 

Renaming it's fine, but we HAVE to keep it.  There are going to be literally
dozens of symbol sets, plus the potential for user-generated sets, and I
would not want to loop through all the possibilities just to find out
whether a sequence could be translated or complemented.

JT 


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