[Biojava-l] Another problem with TaxonFactories

["Andreas Dräger"]

Hello,

every monday NCBI releases a new version of taxon names, merged nodes etc. A
scientific name of a taxon might be changed someday. If a TaxonFactory only
allowes to search for a taxon by scientific name which is the case at the
moment at least for SimpleTaxonFactory, we might lose information, if we
want to perform a database update for example. I would like to suggest to
extend this for the NCBI-Taxon ID so that we can consider changed names
properties. By the way, one does not easily understand that the parameter
called 'String id' is the 'scientific name' in reality. I would like to
suggest to change that.

Andreas

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