[BioSQL-l] Authority in biodatabase table
Richard Holland
holland at ebi.ac.uk
Tue Nov 27 08:39:52 UTC 2007
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BioJava leaves authority blank at the moment.
cheers,
Richard
Peter wrote:
> Thank's for all the replies on the db_xref issue.
>
> Today I'd like to ask if there are any established guidelines for the
> biodatabase table - in particular for how to use the "authority" field
> in the biodatabase table, and if there is any agreed terminology for
> the named "sub databases" defined therein i.e. what should I call them
> in our documentation.
>
> By default, unless the user specifies an authority, we end up with a
> NULL when creating entries in the biodatabase table using Biopython.
> For example:
>
> from BioSQL import BioSeqDatabase
> server = BioSeqDatabase.open_database(driver="MySQLdb", user="root",
> passwd = "", host = "localhost", db="bioseqdb")
> db = server.new_database("orchids", description="Just for testing")
> server.adaptor.commit()
>
> I'd like to give some sensible defaults in any worked examples. Apart
> from simple test cases (like above), sensible examples that came to
> mind would be creating a "sub database" to contain:
> (*) an entire GenBank release
> (*) the latest SwissProt release
>
> What would you use in these cases. In fact, what does your
> biodatabase table contain right now?
>
> Thank you all,
>
> Peter
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Richard Holland (BioMart)
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Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD, UK
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