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

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Aug 22, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Anand C. Patel wrote:

> Do I need to load ontology before loading sequences?

You don't. Especially if you load genbank sequences as they come.

Loading ontologies that are used for sequence annotation is useful as  
it will get your features (or sequences) linked to fully populated  
(description, synonyms, relationships, etc) terms rather than skeleton  
term records created on the fly. However, in GenBank format ontology  
terms are part of the feature table, and require a post-processing  
(using, e.g., a SeqProcessor class) step to be identified and turned  
into Bio::Annotation::OntologyTerm objects.

	-hilmar

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