[Bioperl-l] Bio::DB::GFF fgroup table def

[Jay Hesselberth]

I've been using the GFF format to store information for the refseq
versions of the NCBI bacterial genomes.

I ran into a snag yesterday when I discovered that the fgroup table has
a UNIQUE identifier associated with it.  The upshot of this is that when
I import the data from *all* the genomes into a single gff database,
only one gene name can be in the fgroup table at a time.  That is 'lacI'
would only be present in the database for the last organism that was
uploaded, and all other genomes would (apparently) not have a lacI gene.

I'm not sure what the UNIQUE identifier is there for, other than data
integrity?  Anyway deleting that solved my problem :).

Jay

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