Locations and References

Location

Note

This class is imported from VRS. Its full documentation can be found in the latest VRS specification at vrs.ga4gh.org.

Trial Use

May change in future releases. See Maturity Model.

Abstract Class — not instantiated directly; concrete subclasses inherit its attributes.

Sealed — Location has a closed, exhaustive set of concrete subclasses; every one is listed below. No other subclass is permitted, and a conforming instance must be exactly one of these types.

Computational Definition

A contiguous segment of a biological sequence.

Information Model

This class must match one of the following:

• RelativeSequenceLocation

• Sequence Location

Inherits: Ga4ghIdentifiableObject

Subclasses: RelativeSequenceLocation, Sequence Location

Used in: Adjacency, Adjacency Constraint, FunctionalDomain, Gene Fusion, Terminus

All VRS variation objects are built on Sequence Locations and, by extension all references are built on, Sequence References.

• Sequence Location
• Sequence Reference