Bio/DB/SeqFeature/NormalizedFeatureI.pm

   1 package Bio::DB::SeqFeature::NormalizedFeatureI;
   2
   3
   4 =head1 NAME
   5
   6 Bio::DB::SeqFeature::NormalizedFeatureI -- Interface for normalized features
   7
   8 =head1 SYNOPSIS
   9
  10 none
  11
  12 =head1 DESCRIPTION
  13
  14 This is an extremely simple interface that contains a single method,
  15 subfeatures_are_normalized(). This method returns a true value.
  16
  17 Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store feature classes will inherit this interface
  18 to flag that they are able to store subfeatures in a normalized way
  19 such that the subfeature is actually contained in the
  20 Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store database and the parent feature contains
  21 only the subfeatures primary ID.
  22
  23 =head1 BUGS
  24
  25 None, but the whole class design might be flawed.
  26
  27 =head1 SEE ALSO
  28
  29 L<bioperl>,
  30 L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature>,
  31 L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store>,
  32 L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Segment>,
  33 L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature::GFF3Loader>,
  34 L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::DBI::mysql>,
  35 L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::bdb>
  36
  37 =head1 AUTHOR
  38
  39 Lincoln Stein E<lt>lstein@cshl.orgE<gt>.
  40
  41 Copyright (c) 2006 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  42
  43 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  44 it under the same terms as Perl itself.
  45
  46 =cut
  47
  48
  49
  50 sub subfeatures_are_normalized { 1 }
  51
  52 1;