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 * Copyright (c) 2006 Genome Research Limited.
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package org.gmod.schema.dao;

import org.gmod.schema.analysis.AnalysisFeature;
import org.gmod.schema.general.Db;
import org.gmod.schema.general.DbXRef;
import org.gmod.schema.sequence.Feature;



public interface GeneralDaoI extends BaseDaoI{

    /**
     * Retrieve a database by name
     * 
     * @param name the name to lookup
     * @return the corresponding db, or null
     */
    public abstract Db getDbByName(String name);

    /**
     * Retrieve the db xref corresponding to a given DB and accession number
     * 
     * @param db the db the dbxref refers to
     * @param accession the accession "number" the dbxref refers to
     * @return the dbxref, or null
     */
    public abstract DbXRef getDbXRefByDbAndAcc(Db db, String accession);

    /**
     * Retrieve the analysisfeature corresponding to the given feature
     * 
     * @param feature the feature whose analysisfeature has to be found
     * @return the analysisfeature
     */
    public abstract AnalysisFeature getAnalysisFeatureFromFeature(Feature feature);
}