Re: equality of proteins based on their aminoacid sequence signature

Andy Yates <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.bio.general
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Hi Francois,

Neither Compounds nor Sequences have an over-ridden equals() & hashcode() method which is why you're seeing the current behaviour. 

Andy

On 9 Mar 2011, at 20:12, François Le Fevre wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to know if 2 proteins that have the same sequence of aminoacid should be equals?
> I was wandering that 2 Sequence<AminoAcidCompound> that have exactly the same string signature should be the same.
> But it seems to be not the case.
> Is it normal?
> 
> Thank for your help.
> 
> 
> Sequence<AminoAcidCompound> protein1 = MKRISTTITTTITITTGNGAG    hash=801818331
> Sequence<AminoAcidCompound> protein2 = MKRISTTITTTITITTGNGAG    hash=700804192
> 
> protein1.equals(protein2) return false.
> 
> Francois
> 
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