public int[] findPositionMap();
/**
+ *
+ * @return true if sequence is composed of amino acid characters
+ */
+ public boolean isProtein();
+
+ /**
* Delete a range of aligned sequence columns, creating a new dataset sequence
* if necessary and adjusting start and end positions accordingly.
*
public void insertCharAt(int position, int count, char ch);
/**
- * DOCUMENT ME!
+ * Gets array holding sequence features associated with this sequence. The
+ * array may be held by the sequence's dataset sequence if that is defined.
*
- * @return DOCUMENT ME!
+ * @return hard reference to array
*/
public SequenceFeature[] getSequenceFeatures();
/**
- * DOCUMENT ME!
+ * Replaces the array of sequence features associated with this sequence with
+ * a new array reference. If this sequence has a dataset sequence, then this
+ * method will update the dataset sequence's feature array
*
- * @param v
- * DOCUMENT ME!
+ * @param features
+ * New array of sequence features
*/
public void setSequenceFeatures(SequenceFeature[] features);
*/
public PDBEntry getPDBEntry(String pdbId);
+ /**
+ * Set the distinct source database, and accession number from which a
+ * sequence and its start-end data were derived from. This is very important
+ * for SIFTS mappings and must be set prior to performing SIFTS mapping.
+ *
+ * @param dbRef
+ * the source dbRef for the sequence
+ */
public void setSourceDBRef(DBRefEntryI dbRef);
+ /**
+ * Get the distinct source database, and accession number from which a
+ * sequence and its start-end data were derived from.
+ *
+ * @return
+ */
public DBRefEntryI getSourceDBRef();
}