I think the philosophical view on this is that the mutated sequence is a *new* and *different* sequence.
On 30 Mar 2015, at 09:30, Jose Manuel Duarte <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jonas > > I'm not very familiar with the sequence part of Biojava, but after looking > around a bit it seems that indeed there's no available way to mutate > sequences. It looks like people using Biojava before had "read-only" > applications in mind. I agree a setCompoundAt(int position) would be needed, > it should actually be part of the Sequence interface. It would be a nice > addition for 4.1. > > Anyway sorry I can't be of more help, perhaps someone else has some more > background info on this. > > Jose > > > > On 28.03.2015 17:13, Jonas Dehairs wrote: >> I want to introduce a mutation to a DNA sequence at a particular location. >> I can't seem to find a suitable method for this in the 4.0 API. What would >> make most sense to me is a setCompoundAt (int position, c compound) method >> in the AbstractSequence class, similar to the getCompoundAt(int position) >> method, but this doesn't seem to exist. And the mutator class seems to be >> for proteins only. How can I do this? >> >> -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
