[Biococoa-dev] BioCocoa and CoreData

[Koen van der Drift]

Bumping this subject from a few years ago, maybe someone can answer to this?

Thanks,

- Koen.



On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Koen van der Drift
<koenvanderdrift at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>[...] I thought to write a small demo app like a simple sequence editor for
> BioCocoa that uses CoreData, just as an exercise. The excellent
> tutorial at MacResearch.org also deals with molecules, so that was
> promising. But when I thought more about it, I came to the conclusion
> that an editor is actually not a good example to use with CoreData
> (please correct me if I'm wrong). It get's more interesting when the
> app deals with more than one sequence at a time, eg when aligning
> them, or when dealing with digests from a main sequence. On top of
> that, if I use BCSequence as an attribute for my Sequence entity, I
> still need to go to all the BioCocoa classes for I/O, use all the
> accessors, etc.
>
> So, just out of curiosity, I was wondering if anyone has used CoreData
> in combination with BioCocoa? Should/can BioCocoa be adapted to be
> more CoreData friendly?