Re: [GeneX-dev] Extra Species in the Database

[Harry J. M. <hj...@nc...>]

On 9 Mar 2001, Jason E. Stewart wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean by 'that they don't work'. The annoyance
> that I'm aware of just has to do with the list being very long. So
> when there's a select list, you have to scroll forever. 

I meant that there's no experiments that match them so a user could be
clicking and getting the 'Sorry, no experiments matched your query' response
for a long time.  We don;t have to remvoe all of them but we should remove
those that we'll not support for a long time (like purple wombat, red kanga,
blue shark, variagated plover, etc).

> > What's the effort in removing the unsupported Species names in the
> > Db for now and adding them back only when there's SF support for
> > them?  Or (he said, demonstrating his lack of attention to the SF
> > area) are they required for client-side-loading of SF data?
> 
> Before anyone can add an array-layout into the DB the species for all
> their USF must first exist in the DB. 

OK - so we should keep things like Arab. thaliana, mouse, but remove some of
the more exotic species.


What say ye, others?

hjm


> I have no problem removing species without SF, and especially those
> that we never will, like Red Kangaroo. They were put there to help the
> CT folks test out the organism table.
> 
> jas.
> 
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