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

[Hilmar Lapp]

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.
>
>
> 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).

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

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