com.rubecula.darwin.domain.helper
Interface Pharacter

All Superinterfaces:

net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable, SexLinked

All Known Implementing Classes:

Pharacter_, Pharacter_Fisherian, Pharacter_Sex

public interface Pharacter
extends net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable, SexLinked

This interface represents the concept of a Phenotypic Character. The name was chosen to avoid confusion with Character. A Pharacter can take the value of any of a finite set of Variants. Pharacter is to Locus as Phenotype is to Genome, or Trait is to Gene, or Phenome is to Genomic . An example of Pharacter would be "eye color". Brown, hazel, blue, etc. are specific Variants. A specific trait takes as its value a specific variant from a character.

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

SEX sex

Method Summary

java.lang.String	addVariant(Variant variant) Method to add a trait to this character.
java.lang.String	getKey(Variant variant)
Variant	getVariant(java.lang.String key)
java.util.Set<java.lang.String>	getVariantKeys()
java.util.Collection<Variant>	getVariants()

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable

getIdentifier

Methods inherited from interface com.rubecula.darwin.domain.helper.SexLinked

isSexLinked

Field Detail

SEX

static final java.lang.String SEX

sex

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

addVariant

java.lang.String addVariant(Variant variant)

Method to add a trait to this character.

Parameters:

variant - A value which this character can take.

Returns:

the key to this variant.

getKey

java.lang.String getKey(Variant variant)

Parameters:

variant -

Returns:

the key of the trait for this Pharacter, otherwise null

getVariant

Variant getVariant(java.lang.String key)

Parameters:

key -

Returns:

the trait for this character indicated by key.

getVariantKeys

java.util.Set<java.lang.String> getVariantKeys()

Returns:

the set of keys of the variants.

getVariants

java.util.Collection<Variant> getVariants()

Returns:

the entire list of traits for this character. Getter/setter typically used by reflection.