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21 package jalview.io.gff;
23 import jalview.datamodel.AlignmentI;
24 import jalview.datamodel.SequenceFeature;
25 import jalview.datamodel.SequenceI;
27 import java.io.IOException;
28 import java.util.List;
31 * An interface to described common functionality of different flavours of GFF
36 public interface GffHelperI
39 * GFF3 spec requires comma, equals, semi-colon, tab, percent characters to be
40 * encoded as %2C, %3D, %3B, %09, %25 respectively within data values
41 * see https://github.com/The-Sequence-Ontology/Specifications/blob/master/gff3.md
43 final String GFF_ENCODABLE = ",=;\t%";
45 final String RENAME_TOKEN = "$RENAME_TO$";
48 * Process one GFF feature line
51 * the sequence with which this feature is associated
55 * the alignment we are adding GFF to
57 * any new sequences referenced by the GFF
58 * @param relaxedIdMatching
59 * if true, match word tokens in sequence names
60 * @return a SequenceFeature if one should be created, else null
63 SequenceFeature processGff(SequenceI seq, String[] gffColumns,
64 AlignmentI align, List<SequenceI> newseqs,
65 boolean relaxedIdMatching) throws IOException;
67 // java 8 will allow static methods in interfaces:
68 // static boolean recognises(String [] columns);