[Bioperl-l] problem while parsing UniProt(ltaxon.pm)

[Sendu Bala]

Chris Fields wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Sendu Bala wrote:
>> Thanks. I've made a tentative fix to swiss.pm. The only problem might 
>> be common names/ descriptions don't get caught on some strange OS 
>> lines. I don't have enough experience of OS lines to know what they 
>> might look like.
>>
>> Still, at least there won't be thrown exceptions, which some users may 
>> prefer ;)
>>
>> I'll add tests later if and when Ambrose/ yourself confirm all is well.
> 
> I'm getting it to parse but there is a '.' appended to the 
> scientific_name():
> 
> Venerupis (Ruditapes) philippinarum.

Ok, that should be fixed as well now. How do/will these changes feed 
into your driver stuff? What is the status on that work? The intent? Are 
we switching over to using swissdriver.pm et al. at some point?