001/**
002 * Copyright (C) 2010-2015 The Roslin Institute <contact andy.law@roslin.ed.ac.uk>
003 *
004 * This file is part of JEnsembl: a Java API to Ensembl data sources developed by the
005 * Bioinformatics Group at The Roslin Institute, The Royal (Dick) School of
006 * Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh.
007 *
008 * Project hosted at: http://jensembl.sourceforge.net
009 *
010 * This is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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013 *
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021 */
022package uk.ac.roslin.ensembl.model.compara;
023
024import java.util.List;
025import uk.ac.roslin.ensembl.model.core.Gene;
026import uk.ac.roslin.ensembl.model.core.Species;
027import uk.ac.roslin.ensembl.model.relationship.GroupRelationship;
028
029
030/**
031 * Ensembl schema and PerlAPI claims that homology relationships
032 * are not necessarily only binary, i.e. the could have more than two members.
033 */
034public interface HomologyRelationship<CLAZZ extends Gene> extends GroupRelationship<CLAZZ> {
035
036    @Override
037    public HomologyType getRelationshipType();
038
039    public String getLastCommonAncestor();
040
041    public List<? extends Species> getSpecies();
042
043
044}