[Biopython] missing fields in SeqIO EMBL parser?

Wim De Smet Wim.DeSmet at UGent.be
Fri May 7 15:15:21 UTC 2010


On 07-05-10 17:10, Peter wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Wim De Smet<Wim.DeSmet at ugent.be>  wrote:
>>
>> On 07-05-10 16:50, Peter wrote:
>>>
>>> That was also left as a TODO - the dbxrefs list is normally used for
>>> single identifiers - here it would be "RFAM:RF00177" and
>>> "SILVA-SSU:FJ904258" for consistency with the other parsers. At the
>>> time I was undecided on how to handle any secondary identifier Would
>>> you need/want this too? Maybe as  "RFAM:RF00177:SSU_rRNA_5"?
>>
>> I don't really need it as such, I'm just parsing the file and dropping the
>> fields in the database, so they could be in there verbatim for all I care.
>> (I'm not even sure what the secondary identifier means in this case.)
>
> Are you using BioSQL or some other schema?

I'm importing into a legacy database. So no. How does BioSQL handle 
values like the date fields? Are they included?

regards,
Wim

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