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

[Sendu Bala]

Sendu Bala wrote:
>
> Bio::DB::Taxonomy::flatfile
 >
> BEHAVIOUR-CHANGE: The scientific name field isn't touched in any way, 
> always being sent directly to Bio::Taxonomy::Node->new(-name => 
> $untouched) or the $node->classification() array. Previously, a species 
> node would have its name converted from 'Homo sapiens' to 'sapiens', but 
> the conversion mangled very badly certain other species names.
[...]
 > Bio::DB::Taxonomy::entrez
 >
> BEHAVIOUR-CHANGE: the ScientificName field isn't touched except for s/ 
> \(class\)$//, being sent directly to Bio::Taxonomy::Node->new(-name => 
> $untouched) or the $node->classification() array. Previously, a species 
> node would have its name converted from 'Homo sapiens' to 'sapiens', but 
> the conversion mangled very badly certain other species names.

Oops. In both cases the scientific name has ' (class)' removed from it, 
but the original name (with ' (class)') is stored as one of the common 
names.