[Bioperl-l] [BioSQL-l] How is is_circular recorded in BioSQL (by BioPerl)?

Roy Chaudhuri roy.chaudhuri at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 12:03:56 UTC 2011


I don't think there's any specific handling, but (in GenBank files at 
least) mol_type is recorded as a tag in the source feature, so it will 
be stored in BioSQL like any other feature tag (in 
seqfeature_qualifier_value).

On 25/07/2011 12:30, Peter Cock wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Roy Chaudhuri<roy.chaudhuri at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Can you tell what value is actually put in the database? Presumably
>>> whatever Perl defaults to as the string representation of a boolean?
>>
>> The database value is either 1 or NULL (equivalent to 1 or undef in Perl).
>>
>
> Excellent - I can do the same in Biopython then.
>
> I don't suppose you happen to know where the molecule type goes
> (also in the GenBank/EMBL LOCUS/ID line, e.g. genomic DNA)?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Peter




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