[Biopython-dev] [Bug 2475] BioSQL.Loader should reuse existing taxon entries in lineage

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http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2475





------- Comment #3 from ericgibert at yahoo.fr  2008-03-29 22:53 EST -------
I would like to propose the following solution:

1) add an extra optional parameter to load(): fetchNCBItaxonomy = False --> so
no impact on existing code. If the users call the load function with True then:

2) after the species insert in the taxon/taxon_name table then the XML data
from NCBI's taxonomy database are fetch

3) XML data is used to update taxon/taxon_name tables respecting the unicity of
the records

I have already part of the code, just need to change the fact that if a taxon
already exists then the new taxon points to this already existing one.

Comments?

Eric


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