Hi all of you, I think/have now really an issue that I recognize is missing in biojava. It is the concept of the language. That is the cause that I had always trouble trying to define a cytogenetic locus alphabet in biojava. Since cytogenetic loci are sequences of DNA, they are words of the language DNA^* (That is, DNA u (DNAxDNA) u (DNAxDNAxDNA) u ... ad infinitium)(As I remember). To be definite, they are elements of a subset of DNA^*, so that this language is a certain finite language - the cytogenetic locus language then. Of course, many other languages could be made up of DNA^*. Like a language having only elements which have stop codons in them, or what ever. Since we do not know what sequence the cytogenetic loci have, this is another problem then. At least they have a dedicated name that is totally from their sequence. Alphabets and languages have something in common: - They are sets, and thus, it might be possible to check if 'things' are contained in them or not. - they can be finite or infinite - if infinite, they might at least be enumeratable, recursively enumeratable or whatever. It's all theoretical computer science. Not my profession at all. Maybe the profession of some of the people who'd like to code and say have minor biological experiences.
Ah, and maybe I am wrong. Regards, Armin _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
