[Bioperl-l] Bio::*Taxonomy* changes

[Brian Osborne]

Sendu,

The string "sapiens" is not what a biology textbook would call a scientific
name. You're going to have to respect decades of convention and have
scientific_name() return the genus and species name.

Brian O.


On 7/17/06 5:33 PM, "Sendu Bala" <bix at sendu.me.uk> wrote:

> # I plan on maintaining this; scientific_name() would give you the
> non-redundant sibling-unique name 'sapiens'. binomial() on a species
> rank and lower would give you 'Homo sapiens' (presumably grabbing the
> 'Homo' from the parent node with rank 'genus', or similar).