From 76d5b6059e922dc80f68ee0aca7fa384242576b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Thomas A. Christensen II" <25492070+MillironX@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:48:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add Variation constructor based on edit parsing

---
 src/SequenceVariation.jl | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/SequenceVariation.jl b/src/SequenceVariation.jl
index b8a630a..902e63f 100644
--- a/src/SequenceVariation.jl
+++ b/src/SequenceVariation.jl
@@ -341,6 +341,13 @@ end
 
 Variation(ref::S, edit::Edit{S, T}) where {S, T} = Variation{S, T}(ref, edit)
 
+function Variation(ref::S, edit::AbstractString) where {S<:BioSequence}
+    T = eltype(ref)
+
+    e = parse(Edit{S,T}, edit)
+    return Variation{S,T}(ref, e)
+end
+
 function is_valid(v::Variation)
     isempty(v.ref) && return false
     op = v.edit.x