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package Bio::DB::SeqFeature::NormalizedTableFeatureI;
# $Id: NormalizedTableFeatureI.pm,v 1.2 2006/05/18 20:11:34 lstein Exp $
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=head1 NAME
Bio::DB::SeqFeature::NormalizedTableFeatureI -- Interface for normalized features whose hierarchy is stored in a table
=head1 SYNOPSIS
none
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This is an extremely simple interface that contains a single method,
subfeatures_are_stored_in_a_table(). This method returns a true value.
Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store feature classes will inherit this interface
to flag that in addition to being able to store features in a
normalized way, they will use the Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store database
to record their parent/child relationships. A class that inherits from
NormalizedTableFeatureI will also inherit from NormalizedFeatureI, as
the first is a subclass of the second.
=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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use base 'Bio::DB::SeqFeature::NormalizedFeatureI';
sub subfeatures_are_stored_in_a_table { 1 }
1;