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.
+ * set the reference or representative sequence for this collection. Reference
+ * is assumed to be present within the collection.
+ *
* @return
*/
void setSeqrep(SequenceI refseq);
*/
int getEndRes();
+ /**
+ * Answers true if sequence data is nucleotide (according to some heuristic)
+ *
+ * @return
+ */
+ boolean isNucleotide();
}