[BioSQL-l] bioentry: put molecule or division back?

[Hilmar Lapp]

If you need to tell nucleotide from protein, wouldn't the alphabet 
tell you? I.e., either alphabet is already set at the time you get 
the object in hand, or if not, you set it based on molecule(). Would 
that work or not? If you have neither alphabet nor molecule, how 
would you know what to ask Entrez for?

	-hilmar

On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 03:37 AM, Yves Bastide wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> wht do people think about putting back the molecule in bioentry?  
> If I understand correctly, it's not the same as the alphabet (e.g. 
> mulecule='mRNA', alphabet='dna')
>
> Background: I'm storing blast results between local sequences and 
> remote nr or somesuch.  So I've got most of the bioentry data 
> without the sequence (*), often without GI, but with a molecule 
> type.  And the user may later ask for the full info: sequence data, 
> annotations, references, etc.  To use Entrez, I need to know its 
> database, nucleotide or protein. (nope, can't use biodatabase for 
> this -- too easy)
>
>
> yves
>
>
> (*) Well, some of it, sure; but I've chosen currently to have a 
> "hsp" table with a "sbjct" field.  Ready to take advice on this, 
> too :)
>
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