/*
 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer ($$Version-Rel$$)
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 * 
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 */
package jalview.datamodel;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public interface SequenceCollectionI
{
  /**
   * 
   * @return (visible) sequences in this collection. This may be a direct
   *         reference to the collection so not thread safe
   */
  List<SequenceI> getSequences();

  /**
   * FIXME: AlignmentI.getSequences(hiddenReps) doesn't actually obey this
   * contract!
   * 
   * @param hiddenReps
   * @return the full set of sequences in this collection, including any
   *         sequences represented by sequences in the collection.
   */
  List<SequenceI> getSequences(
          Map<SequenceI, SequenceCollectionI> hiddenReps);

  int getWidth();

  /**
   * 
   * @return true if getSeqrep doesn't return null
   */
  boolean hasSeqrep();

  /**
   * get the reference or representative sequence within this collection
   * 
   * @return null or the current reference sequence
   */
  SequenceI getSeqrep();

  /**
   * set the reference or representative sequence for this collection. Reference
   * is assumed to be present within the collection.
   * 
   * @return
   */
  void setSeqrep(SequenceI refseq);

  /**
   * @return the first column included in this collection. Runs from 0<=i<N_cols
   */
  int getStartRes();

  /**
   * 
   * @return the last column in this collection. Runs from 0<=i<N_cols
   */
  int getEndRes();

  /**
   * Answers true if sequence data is nucleotide (according to some heuristic)
   * 
   * @return
   */
  boolean isNucleotide();
}