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 *
014 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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018 *
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021 */
022package uk.ac.roslin.ensembl.model.core;
023
024import java.util.Collection;
025import java.util.Set;
026import uk.ac.roslin.ensembl.model.XRef;
027
028
029/**
030 *
031 * @author tpaterso
032 */
033public interface Transcript extends Feature, Analyzed, WithDisplayXRef {
034    
035    public boolean isTranslated();
036
037    public Translation getCanonicalTranslation();
038    
039    public Collection<? extends Translation> getTranslations();
040
041    public Gene getGene();
042
043    public Collection<? extends Exon> getExons();
044    
045    /**
046     * Returns any curated CCDS for this transcript. 
047     */
048    public String getCcdsID();
049    public Set<? extends XRef> getCCDSXRefs();
050
051}