[Bioc-devel] OrganismDb: what about BSgenome?
On 06/18/2014 05:26 AM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
Would it make sense for an OrganismDb object to have an associated BSgenome? This association is implicit anyway. Or do we need an even broader umbrella object? This would make some things easier. For example, predictCoding(variants, Homo.sapiens). Just nice to have everything in one bundle. Also, could there be a mapping between the genome(variants) ID and Homo.sapiens, so predictCoding(variants) is possible? Or is that just being too automatic? At the very least, it would be nice if the various TranscriptDb methods started to support OrganismDb as an alternative.
I know Marc has added many of them already. Which one are missing? My understanding is that most of them actually delegate to the method for TranscriptDb objects. Why not just make OrganismDb extend TranscriptDb so all of them would actually work out-of-the-box (then only override when needed). We could do the same with BSgenome. This looks like a place where multiple inheritance could maybe save us a lot of work. Cheers, H.
Michael [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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