[Bioperl-l] Behavior of Bio::Species object

[Elia Stupka]

> say "Mus musculus (house mouse)". Wouldn't it be better just to have the
> binomial species name? Should I always expect information after the
> binomial name and parse off the first two words?

Dear Michael, it's simply done to prevent loss of information across
parsers, so you can expect "overloading" to try and prevent that loss.

Elia

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