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 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (2.11.2.6)
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 * 
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package jalview.datamodel;

/**
 * An interface that describes one matched region of an alignment, as one
 * contiguous portion of a single dataset sequence
 */
public interface SearchResultMatchI
{
  /**
   * Returns the matched sequence
   * 
   * @return
   */
  SequenceI getSequence();

  /**
   * Returns the start position of the match in the sequence (base 1)
   * 
   * @return
   */
  int getStart();

  /**
   * Returns the end position of the match in the sequence (base 1)
   * 
   * @return
   */
  int getEnd();

  /**
   * Answers true if this match is for the given sequence and includes (matches
   * or encloses) the given start-end range
   * 
   * @param seq
   * @param start
   * @param end
   * @return
   */
  boolean contains(SequenceI seq, int start, int end);
}