[Biopython-dev] [Bug 2833] Features insertion on previous bioentry_id

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Jun 9, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Peter wrote:

> You're not saying in BioSQL bioentry.identifier should for an NCBI  
> GI number *only*, are you?


No, absolutely not. It is the "internal database identifier" from  
where the record came from, if that database assigns - and publishes -  
such identifiers. For example, it might be the primary key in some  
database.

Just keep in mind that accession is required, whereas identifier is  
not, and they are not synonymous. So if you only have one identifier  
for a record, unless you know that it's the GI# and what you have is a  
GenBank record, the identifier would likely be called the accession,  
and the identifier column would remain null.

	-hilmar
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