/*
 * Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Institute for Computational Biomedicine,
 *                    Weill Medical College of Cornell University
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 */

package edu.cornell.med.icb.goby.alignments.processors;

import edu.cornell.med.icb.goby.alignments.ConcatSortedAlignmentReader;

/**
 * A factory to create alignment processors.
 * @author Fabien Campagne
 *         Date: 5/31/11
 *         Time: 1:16 PM
 */
public interface AlignmentProcessorFactory {
    /**
     * Create an alignment processor with input from sortedReaders.
     * @param sortedReaders Input to the processor
     * @return A configured processor.
     */
    public AlignmentProcessorInterface create(ConcatSortedAlignmentReader sortedReaders);
}
