[Bioperl-l] Bio::Taxonomy confusion

Jason Stajich jason.stajich at duke.edu
Thu May 11 13:53:56 UTC 2006


i guess so - long since forgotten what it supports though since I  
don't regularly use it. sorry.

On May 11, 2006, at 8:22 AM, Sendu Bala wrote:

> Jason Stajich wrote:
>> Great - now we just need someone to volunteer to actually work on  
>> this.
>
> Now I'm really confused...
>
>
>> The current code grabs most of this but I believe expects a  
>> different XML
>
> No, I think the code in bioperl 1.5.1 Bio::DB::Taxonomy::entrez  
> expects
> that XML, and parses it as fully as flatfile.pm does. Nothing more to
> do. Weren't you the person that wrote that parser?
>
> I parse the same XML in my version of entrez.pm (see my previous  
> email);
> the main difference being I make Nodes out of each Taxon instead of  
> just
> adding each Taxon's ScientificName to the classification array.
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