[BioSQL-l] The taxon table

[Greg Tyrelle]

*** Yves Bastide wrote: 
  |3. I've hacked a crude load_tax.py script. It's postgresql specific 
  |(using COPY FROM), meant to be used for empty taxon* tables, and works 
  |in about 3-4 min.  Is anyone interested?

Yes, I'd be interested in using that for mysql.  Would you care to make
it available somewhere or email it to the list ?

Also is taxonomy optional in BioSQL or will any fresh install of
BioSQL need to load the ncbi taxonomy data by default ?

cheers

_greg