[Biopython-dev] [Bug 2833] Features insertion on previous bioentry_id
Hilmar Lapp
hlapp at gmx.net
Tue Jun 9 23:07:55 UTC 2009
On Jun 9, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Peter wrote:
> You're not saying in BioSQL bioentry.identifier should for an NCBI
> GI number *only*, are you?
No, absolutely not. It is the "internal database identifier" from
where the record came from, if that database assigns - and publishes -
such identifiers. For example, it might be the primary key in some
database.
Just keep in mind that accession is required, whereas identifier is
not, and they are not synonymous. So if you only have one identifier
for a record, unless you know that it's the GI# and what you have is a
GenBank record, the identifier would likely be called the accession,
and the identifier column would remain null.
-hilmar
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