[Bioperl-l] Help using bioperl-db

[Elia Stupka]

Dear Gert,

thank you for your enquiry.


> understanding the usage of a few variables. So I have some questions. First,
> what is the purpose of $sqlname and $dbname and what is the difference between
> them? Second, this is related to the first one: what is t he purpose of 

sqlname name is the name of the mysql database you are storing things
in. dbname is the name of the biological sequence database you are
loading. This is needed because you can load multiple databases in the
same bioperl-db mysql database, for example embl and genbank, or custom
databases like all human sequences in one db and all mouse sequences in
another.

> $dbid =
> $dbadaptor->get_BioDatabaseAdaptor->fetch_by_name_store_if_needed($dbname);

This method is given a database name, if that name is not present, then
the database gets created automatically.

Elia

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