[Bioperl-l] Bio::Species/Bio::Taxonomy changes

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Jul 24, 2006, at 3:58 AM, Sendu Bala wrote:

> On a side note, why would we care about 'organelle' when we're dealing
> with taxonomy? Why does the NCBI taxonomy db have a slot for  
> organelle?

Because some sequences are of the organelle DNA, and Genbank needs a  
way to express this. Highly artificial, but still can't be ignored.
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