[Bioperl-l] Bio::Species/Bio::Taxonomy changes

[Sendu Bala]

Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> 
> On Jul 24, 2006, at 3:58 AM, Sendu Bala wrote:
> 
>> On a side note, why would we care about 'organelle' when we're dealing
>> with taxonomy? Why does the NCBI taxonomy db have a slot for organelle?
> 
> Because some sequences are of the organelle DNA, and Genbank needs a way 
> to express this. Highly artificial, but still can't be ignored.

Ok, but why is it stored as part of the taxonomy? Why isn't it stored in 
its own field? And does /bioperl/ have to store it as part of the 
taxonomy? Maybe the file parser could have its own organelle() method 
and leave all taxonomic classes without such a method. Or it could stay 
as is, I don't know.

Do different organelles in the same species get unique taxonomy ids?