/* General reasoning */

markjschreiber · andreasprlic · commit 36301692ad20 · 2016-04-09T10:57:59.000-07:00
diff --git a/_wikis/BioJava3_Proposal.md b/_wikis/BioJava3_Proposal.md
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ General reasoning
 -   The only database support is for BioSQL, which uses Hibernate but
     not in a fully flexible manner (i.e. cannot connect to more than one
     db at a time).
--   It is sequence-focused. Users have moved on.
+-   It is very sequence-centric. Users have moved on. BioJava3 should
+    embrace other datatypes. Most bioinformatics now deals with
+    multi-dimensional feature vectors (data matrices). While one or more
+    of these dimensions might be sequence there should be no need for
+    everything to be tied to sequence.
 
 Proposal
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diff --git a/_wikis/BioJava3_Proposal.mediawiki b/_wikis/BioJava3_Proposal.mediawiki
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ It is suggested that development stop on the existing BioJava/BioJavaX/BioJava2
 * We do not make use of any Java features since Java 4. Generics is the obvious one.
 * There is no support for changing file formats. It supports one version or another, but cannot handle both.
 * The only database support is for BioSQL, which uses Hibernate but not in a fully flexible manner (i.e. cannot connect to more than one db at a time).
-* It is sequence-focused. Users have moved on.
+* It is very sequence-centric. Users have moved on. BioJava3 should embrace other datatypes. Most bioinformatics now deals with multi-dimensional feature vectors (data matrices). While one or more of these dimensions might be sequence there should be no need for everything to be tied to sequence.
 
 ==Proposal==
 
