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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>To implement "savability" we would just have to implement the NSCoding protocol, that allows you to save arrays/dictionaries to contain these objects. Although it would perhaps be nice if there was a method to output these to some kind of plist like format in addition. <BR>
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Actually, I’d argue against having this be the primary way we store things. Coding is a way of storing objects, and is only useful to other Cocoa programs. What I’d like to create is a format that’s also useful outside of BioCocoa, so that it’s useful on other platforms, using other frameworks, in other programming languages, etc.<BR>
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In the end, pretty much everything else out there views sequence information as a string of single-character symbols – there’s no reason our primary storage mechanism shouldn’t be the same way, to ensure maximal interoperability.<BR>
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By the way, I notice I’m presenting a lot of arguments for or against things. I want to make sure that those who do not have English as their primary language recognize that when I use the term “argue” I mean it in the sense of presenting a compelling reason, rather than the sense of getting in an upset yelling match ;)<BR>
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