[Bioperl-l] Representation of phylogenetic trees

Hilmar Lapp hlapp@gnf.org
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:00:02 -0800


On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 10:14 AM, David Messina wrote:

> Finally, I ended up reading over the code of the Bio/SeqIO/genbank.pm 
> module to figure out where it stores the gi when it parses the Genbank 
> record. As it turns out, it was in $seqobj->primary_id(). Now, 
> primary_id() is mentioned in both Bio::Seq and bptutorial, but neither 
> of them indicate that the gi is there. I assume that's because 
> primary_id() isn't always the gi.
>

Right, it's not. Also, the GI number being parsed out is a fairly 
recent addition (~ mid Oct). But it's good that you point this out. In 
fact, can you submit this to bugzilla.bioperl.org?

	-hilmar
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