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package Bio::DB::SeqFeature::NormalizedFeatureI;
# $Id: NormalizedFeatureI.pm,v 1.2 2006/05/18 20:11:34 lstein Exp $
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=head1 NAME
Bio::DB::SeqFeature::NormalizedFeatureI -- Interface for normalized features
=head1 SYNOPSIS
none
=head1 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.
=head1 BUGS
None, but the whole class design might be flawed.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<bioperl>,
L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature>,
L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store>,
L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Segment>,
L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature::GFF3Loader>,
L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::DBI::mysql>,
L<Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::bdb>
=head1 AUTHOR
Lincoln Stein E<lt>lstein@cshl.orgE<gt>.
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.
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sub subfeatures_are_normalized { 1 }
1;