JAL-1062 use matching region or first section of sequence source regex to select...

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / ws / seqfetcher / DbSourceProxy.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/ws/seqfetcher/DbSourceProxy.java b/src/jalview/ws/seqfetcher/DbSourceProxy.java
index 4b9c472..3dacb12 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/ws/seqfetcher/DbSourceProxy.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ws/seqfetcher/DbSourceProxy.java
@@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ public interface DbSourceProxy
 \r
   /**\r
    * Regular expression for checking form of query string understood by this\r
-   * source.\r
+   * source. If the Regex includes parenthesis, then the first parenthesis\r
+   * should yield the same accession string as the one used to annotate the\r
+   * sequence. This is used to match query strings to returned sequences.\r
    * \r
    * @return null or a validation regex\r
    */\r