NAME

Bio::DB::SeqFeature::NormalizedFeatureI -- Interface for normalized features

SYNOPSIS

none

DESCRIPTION

This is an extremely simple interface that contains a single method, subfeatures_are_normalized(). This method returns a true value.

Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store feature classes will inherit this interface to flag that they are able to store subfeatures in a normalized way such that the subfeature is actually contained in the Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store database and the parent feature contains only the subfeatures primary ID.

BUGS

None, but the whole class design might be flawed.

SEE ALSO

bioperl, Bio::DB::SeqFeature, Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store, Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Segment, Bio::DB::SeqFeature::GFF3Loader, Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::DBI::mysql, Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::bdb

AUTHOR

Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org>.

Copyright (c) 2006 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.