[Bioperl-l] Species name validation

Hilmar Lapp hlapp@gnf.org
Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:57:41 -0700


On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 09:46 AM, Jason Stajich wrote:

>
> Anyways, I am perfectly happy to turn off the name validatation
> altogether, basically it required all fields other than the species to
> start with a capital letter.
>

I wouldn't turn it off completely -- there should be some protection 
against setting the classification array in the wrong order (because 
it needs to be reverse order, which is non-intuitive for people used 
to looking at classification in, say, Genbank records).

	-hilmar

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