[BioSQL-l] alternative taxonomic hierarchies in BioSQL?

[Bánk Beszteri]

Dear BioSQLers,

do I understand right that the current BioSQL schema allows for a single 
taxonomy per database only? When looking into the tables taxon and 
taxon_name, it looks like neither taxa nor their neighborhood 
relationships can belong to different taxonomies. Is this correct, or am 
I missing something?

If this is so: are there any plans to add such a feature in the future? 
I think (besides that I could use it) it could probably be useful for 
others as well (to have the possibility to e.g. have an ITIS taxonomy or 
just a user?s own private taxonomy parallel to NCBI taxonomy in a single 
BioSQL DB). I didn?t find anything about this on the BioSQL pages, 
please direct me to the right place if I missed it!

Bank


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Dr. Bank Beszteri
Bioinformatics Working Group
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Am Handelshafen 12
Bremerhaven
Germany