public boolean updateFrom(DBRefEntryI otherEntry);
/**
- * Method to distinguish between direct and indirect database references. <br>
+ * Answers true if the ref looks like a primary (direct) database reference. <br>
+ * The only way a dbref's mappings can be fully verified is via the local
+ * sequence frame, so rather than use isPrimaryCandidate directly, please use
+ * SequenceI.getPrimaryDbRefs(). <br>
* Primary references indicate the local sequence data directly corresponds
* with the database record. All other references are secondary. Direct
* references indicate that part or all of the local sequence data can be
* This method is also sufficient to distinguish direct DBRefEntry mappings
* from other relationships - e.g. coding relationships (imply a 1:3/3:1
* mapping), but not transcript relationships, which imply a (possibly
- * non-contiguous) 1:1 mapping. <br>
- * The only way a dbref's mappings can be fully verified is via the local
- * sequence frame, so rather than use isPrimary directly, please use
- * SequenceI.getPrimaryDbRefs().
+ * non-contiguous) 1:1 mapping.
*
* @return true if this reference provides a primary accession for the
* associated sequence object
*/
- public boolean isPrimary();
+ public boolean isPrimaryCandidate();
}