edu.mssm.crover.representation
Interface BiologicalAnnotation

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

Annotation, Mutation_Annotation, SequenceOrigin_Annotation, URL_Annotation

public interface BiologicalAnnotation
extends Serializable

Represents a single annotation. Single annotations are intended to be inserted in a BiologicalAnnotations.

Author:

Fabien Campagne

See Also:

BiologicalAnnotations

Method Summary

boolean	describesResidue(int position) Returns whether the position is described by this annotation.
String	getInfo() Returns a consise text that describes the nature of this annotation.
BiologicalOrigin	getOrigin() Obtain the origin of this annotation.
void	setOrigin(BiologicalOrigin x) Sets the origin for this annotation.

Method Detail

getOrigin

BiologicalOrigin getOrigin()

Obtain the origin of this annotation.

setOrigin

void setOrigin(BiologicalOrigin x)

Sets the origin for this annotation.

getInfo

String getInfo()

Returns a consise text that describes the nature of this annotation. This text is constant over several instances of the same class.

describesResidue

boolean describesResidue(int position)

Returns whether the position is described by this annotation.

Returns:

true when the annotation is pertinent for this residue, false otherwise.