[Biococoa-dev] more ramblings

[Koen van der Drift]

On Dec 2, 2004, at 2:02 AM, Alexander Griekspoor wrote:
>

> The basic setup is something we all agree on I think, it would be nice 
> indeed if all classes had the same BCSequence prefix, although not 
> easy ;-) I like BCSequenceBundle, but I'm not sure if wrapper is 
> appropriate. I know we consider it a wrapper object, but I would like 
> to keep it closer to sequences, I thought of BCAnnotatedSequence, but 
> it would loose the common prefix. Still, better than 
> BCSequenceWrapper. Anyway, the (semi-)native englishmen on this list 
> can jump in here ;-).

Hey, I'm semi-native american!


>  Wait, would it be an idea to make it:

> BCAnnotatedSequenceBundle - a bundle of BCAnnotatedSequences (in an 
> array)
>
> BCAnnotatedSequence - contains a dictionary of BCFeatures (so no 
> BCFeatures object, because that has no advantage over a dictionary), a 
> BCSequence, a dictionary of BCAnnotation

I like the BCAnnotatedSequence name. Although it kinda leaves out the 
features.

BTW, I'm still confused about what is the difference between a feature 
and an annotation. I think we should define very well what we want to 
store in either one. And if the BCFeature and BCAnnotation aren't 
objects, what do you intend them to be?

Should we also make a special class BCAnnotatedSequenceReader that 
takes care of extracting as much as info as possible from a file? Or 
should we do everything with BCSequenceReader.?

>> Actually, I think that is a good point. But we have to be aware of 
>> the fact that a developer can have all compiler warnings turned off.
> Then it's a stupid developer IMHO....

Yep - and we all know there's plenty of them ;-)


cheers,

- Koen.