[BioSQL-l] parent_taxon_id of a root node

[Peter]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Sorry Peter - it looks like this slipped my attention (Oct was crazy).
> Thanks for raising it again. I agree with you, this looks like a bug. Would
> you mind filing it?

Sure,
http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2664

> It's possible that has secretly been assumed as policy and hence led to some
> people identifying the root node by equating parent and taxon_id, but surely
> this sounds like the wrong way of doing it, so it deserves fixing.

In the short term we should just make sure all the Bio* projects can
cope with either style root node (Biopython can), but in the long term
are self parent taxon entries something that could be banned via the
schema?

Regards,

Peter