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

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Jul 18, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Sendu Bala wrote:

>
> [regarding changes to Bio::Taxonomy::Node]
>
> Actually, I'm really strongly leaning toward getting rid of the
> following methods and new() options (and giving up entirely on being
> able to keep 'sapiens' somewhere):
>
> -organelle, organelle()
> -division, division()
> -sub_species, sub_species()
> -variant, variant()
> species(), validate_species_name()
> genus()
> binomial()
>
> As far as I can see none of these methods have any place in a generic
> Node class.

I agree. Some of them are a special case for genbank files (organelle 
() etc), and the rest is legacy from Bio::Species.

	-hilmar
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