Open jamesamcl opened 5 years ago
Hi James, Finally getting around to working on this, with my exams completed.
I was reading the SBOL specification manual and found this paragraph on GenericTopLevel
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Custom data can also be embedded at the top level of an SBOL document. The GenericTopLevel class is used to represent top-level entities whose purpose is to contain a set of annotations that are independent of any other class of SBOL object. Entities that have independent existence and are not recognized by the SBOL standard are deserialized to GenericTopLevel objects. These GenericTopLevel objects can be safely used by tools to exchange non-SBOL data.
Does the data from GenBank & similarly FASTA files go into this container?
Ideally a GenBank file would be converted into objects in the SBOL2 data model, such as ComponentDefinition, Sequence, SequenceAnnotation, etc.
Interoperability with BioPython may be the easiest way to enable this.