[MOBY-l] Comment on the MOBY Client behaviour

[mwilkinson at gene.pbi.nrc.ca]

Hi all,

I just found a behaviour in the client that I want to raise in case any
of you were confused by it.

If you do the following "thread" of transactions:

Generic/Keyword -> Flybase --->GO_Term -> TAIR ----> Sequence -> PBI-NRC
----> BLAST  you will find that the namespace of the Blast reports
continues to be TAIR/Locus.  This is not an error per se, as the
namespace and ID attached to the Blast report are, in fact, TAIR/Locus
id=123456...  but  it looks confusing, I agree.  Since the Client rips
any object apart (including Blast reports) to find out what's in their
innards, it does successfully find a base object with namespace TAIR and
ID whatever, and despite the fact that you have a blast report in your
hand, you could conceivably send that back to TAIR to retrieve the
original sequence again... and in fact, this is the first optionon the
drop-down list of available services which is what brought this
behaviour to my attention  :-)

It is going to take some clever Client design to prevent people from
doing this and confusing themselves!!

M


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