Bio::AnnotatableI(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    Bio::AnnotatableI(3pm)

NAME

       Bio::AnnotatableI - the base interface an annotatable object must implement

SYNOPSIS

	   use Bio::SeqIO;
	   # get an annotatable object somehow: for example, Bio::SeqI objects
	   # are annotatable
	   my $seqio = Bio::SeqIO->new(-fh => *STDIN, -format => 'genbank');
	   while (my $seq = $seqio->next_seq()) {
	       # $seq is-a Bio::AnnotatableI, hence:
	       my $ann_coll = $seq->annotation();
	       # $ann_coll is-a Bio::AnnotationCollectionI, hence:
	       my @all_anns = $ann_coll->get_Annotations();
	       # do something with the annotation objects
	   }

DESCRIPTION

       This is the base interface that all annotatable objects must implement. A good example is Bio::Seq which is an AnnotableI object.

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AUTHOR

	Hilmar Lapp E<lt>hlapp@gmx.netE<gt>
	Allen Day E<lt>allenday@ucla.eduE<gt>

APPENDIX

       The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods.  Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

   annotation
	Title	: annotation
	Usage	: $obj->annotation($newval)
	Function: Get the annotation collection for this annotatable object.
	Example :
	Returns : a Bio::AnnotationCollectionI implementing object, or undef
	Args	: on set, new value (a Bio::AnnotationCollectionI
		  implementing object, optional) (an implementation may not
		  support changing the annotation collection)

       See Bio::AnnotationCollectionI

perl v5.14.2							    2012-03-02						    Bio::AnnotatableI(3pm)