[Bioperl-l] Fwd: problem with bioperl (where's the Mus?)

[Chris Fields]

On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

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> On Aug 24, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Chris Fields wrote:
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>> On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Sendu Bala wrote:
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>>> [...]
>>> Ah, yes, well there you go then. So it is a classification()  
>>> issue. Judging by what I said in that bug, looks like the db code  
>>> needs to be changed to put the full scientific name in the first  
>>> element it passes to classification.
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>>
>> Yup.  I believe the only blocking issue with implementing it was  
>> potential backwards-compat problems with databases loaded using old  
>> behavior and then being updated post-1.5.2 (new behavior).
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> The code change is for retrieving data, right? So I'm not sure how  
> it would break backwards compatibility, unless one has taxon entries  
> created before the change (i.e., about 3 years ago?) and through  
> loading sequences rather than through loading the NCBI taxonomy.
>
> 	-hilmar

Right, that's what I thought as well, but I just wasn't clear on  
that.  So, basically we're saying, as long as the code change is on  
the retrieving side, everything's okay?

Then I'm pretty sure I know how to fix it, at least partly.  I can  
probably squeeze that in unless Sendu's working on it.  Sendu?

chris