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

[Greg D. C. <gd...@nc...>]

Harry:

Ok. Now I understand the problem you are talking about. I think there is better 
way to solve this than putting the Species table on a diet. There are two uses 
of the table:

1. To allow selection of data related to a given species.

2. To allow the data loader routines to check the usage of species names.

I think the first problem should be solved by writing a program which only 
displays those species that are actually in use in the database. I don't know 
how to do this. It may be a dirty job, but wouldn't you have to do this anyway 
to determine which species can be safely removed from the species table?

Greg

>From: "Harry J. Mangalam" <hj...@nc...>
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>Subject: Re: [GeneX-dev] Extra Species in the Database
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>Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:42:41 -0700 (MST)
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>On 9 Mar 2001, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
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>> 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.
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>
>What say ye, others?
>
>hjm
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>> 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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