[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 #1 from biopython-bugzilla at maubp.freeserve.co.uk  2008-03-26 08:34 EST -------
See also Bug 2422 and this thread on the BioSQL mailing list:
http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biosql-l/2008-March/001196.html

In particular Hilmar Lapp from BioSQL wrote in reply to trying to reuse
existing taxon table entries based on string matching to the scientific name
field in the taxon_name table, which I said sounded a little unreliable:

> It's pretty unreliable actually. There is not only synonymy
> but also rampant homonymy in taxonomic names. There are
> plenty of examples for the same scientific name in use for a
> plant and for some animal, for example. So in order to be
> unambiguous you will need to know (and check) the kingdom.


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