Locations and References

Location

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:

Inherits: GA4GH Identifiable Object

Subclasses: Relative Sequence Location, Sequence Location

Used in: Adjacency, Terminus

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