+ * Given a pdbId String, return the equivalent PDBEntry if available in the
+ * given sequence
+ *
+ * @param pdbId
+ * @return
+ */
+ public PDBEntry getPDBEntry(String pdbId);
+
+ /**
+ * Get all primary database/accessions for this sequence's data. These
+ * DBRefEntry are expected to resolve to a valid record in the associated
+ * external database, either directly or via a provided 1:1 Mapping.
+ *
+ * @return just the primary references (if any) for this sequence, or an empty
+ * list
+ */
+ public List<DBRefEntry> getPrimaryDBRefs();
+ /**
+ * Answers true if the sequence has annotation for Hidden Markov Model
+ * information content, else false
+ */
+ boolean hasHMMAnnotation();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a (possibly empty) list of sequence features that overlap the given
+ * alignment column range, optionally restricted to one or more specified
+ * feature types. If the range is all gaps, then features which enclose it are
+ * included (but not contact features).
+ *
+ * @param fromCol
+ * start column of range inclusive (1..)
+ * @param toCol
+ * end column of range inclusive (1..)
+ * @param types
+ * optional feature types to restrict results to
+ * @return
+ */
+ List<SequenceFeature> findFeatures(int fromCol, int toCol, String... types);
+
+ /**
+ * Method to call to indicate that the sequence (characters or alignment/gaps)
+ * has been modified. Provided to allow any cursors on residue/column
+ * positions to be invalidated.
+ */
+ void sequenceChanged();
+
+ /**
+ *
+ * @return BitSet corresponding to index [0,length) where Comparison.isGap()
+ * returns true.
+ */
+ BitSet getInsertionsAsBits();
+
+ /**
+ * Replaces every occurrence of c1 in the sequence with c2 and returns the
+ * number of characters changed
+ *
+ * @param c1
+ * @param c2
+ */
+ public int replace(char c1, char c2);
+
+ /**
+ * Answers the GeneLociI, or null if not known
+ *
+ * @return
+ */
+ GeneLociI getGeneLoci();
+
+ /**
+ * Sets the mapping to gene loci for the sequence
+ *
+ * @param speciesId
+ * @param assemblyId
+ * @param chromosomeId
+ * @param map
+ */
+ void setGeneLoci(String speciesId, String assemblyId,
+ String chromosomeId, MapList map);
+
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the sequence string constructed from the substrings of a sequence
+ * defined by the int[] ranges provided by an iterator. E.g. the iterator
+ * could iterate over all visible regions of the alignment