[Bioperl-l] GFF and LocatableSeq refactoring

Hilmar Lapp hlapp at gmx.net
Wed Aug 19 22:19:25 UTC 2009


Putting it into the 9nth column is the equivalent of storing it in the  
{seqfeature,bioentry}_qualifier_value tables in BioSQL.

	-hilmar

On Aug 19, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Scott Cain wrote:

> Hilmar,
>
> The examples in that thread ought to go in the ninth column; using  
> the Dbxref tag for references back to GenBank for example.  The  
> provenience stuff should go in the ninth column as well, though I  
> don't know exactly how would be best.
>
> Scott
>
>
>
> On Aug 18, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Scott Cain wrote:
>>
>>> Additionally, some applications (SynBrowse comes to mind) overload  
>>> the source value and require them to conform to a certain syntax.
>>>
>>> So, what I'm trying to say is, source should probably just stay a  
>>> simple string.
>>
>>
>> I would rephrase that to source should probably retain the  
>> possibility of using made-up strings.
>>
>> You mention one example yourself, and there have been others in a  
>> recent thread on BioSQL [1], for why the option to have  
>> predictable, structured values with attached semantics could be  
>> very useful.
>>
>> 	-hilmar
>>
>> [1] http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biosql-l/2009-August/001602.html
>>
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