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package org.biojava.bio.program.homologene;


/**
 * an interface for Homologene dataset Builders
 *
 * @author David Huen
 */
public interface HomologeneBuilder
{
    public String TAXONID = "TaxonID";
    public String LOCUSID = "LocusID";
    public String HOMOID = "HomologeneID";
    public String ACCESSION = "Accession";

    public String SIMILARITYTYPE = "SimilarityType";
    public String PERCENTIDENTITY = "PercentIdentity";
    public String REFERENCE = "Reference";

    public String TWIN = "twin";
    public String MULTIPLE = "multiple";
    public String CURATED = "curated";


    /**
     * indicates start of data for a HomologeneDB
     */
    public void startDB();

    /**
     * indicates start of data for a OrthoPairSet
     */
    public void startGroup();

    /**
     * indicates start of data for an OrthoPair
     */
    public void startOrthoPair();

    /**
     * indicates start of data for an orthologue
     */
    public void startOrthologue();

    /**
     * add a property to the current Orthologue
     */
    public void addOrthologueProperty(String key, String value);

    /**
     * end of data for this Orthologue
     */
    public void endOrthologue();
 
    /**
     * add a property to the current OrthoPair
     */
    public void addOrthoPairProperty(String key, String value);

    /**
     * end of data for this OrthoPair
     */
    public void endOrthoPair();

    /**
     * add title information to an Orthologue
     * (this is not in enclosed in the Orthologue element
     * because it comes completely separate in the Homologene
     * data files.  Go figger.)
     */
    public void addTitle(int taxonID, String homologeneID, String title);

    /**
     * end of data for group
     */
    public void endGroup();

    /**
     * end of data for DB
     */
    public void endDB();

    /**
     * retrieve the DB that has just been built
     */
    public HomologeneDB getDB();
}