[Bioperl-l] Bio::*Taxonomy* changes

Sendu Bala bix at sendu.me.uk
Mon Jul 24 13:53:23 UTC 2006


Chris Fields wrote:
> Bio::SeqIO::genbank works very happily with the current 
> Bio::Taxonomy::Node now; if we intend to remove most of the method we 
> need to have a similar DB-aware module to house the flatfile data (like 
> Bio::Species) yet be capable of working with Bio::Taxonomy (like Tax::Node).

Can you give code examples of what Bio::SeqIO::genbank is doing and what 
makes it 'happy'? What are the requirements? Would it be as happy 
working with a Bio::Taxonomy object?



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