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

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

Yes, that would be a better idea (asking the DB which species to display). 
Shouldn;t be too bad to do either.  I'll stab at it next week.

hjm

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Greg D. Colello wrote:

> 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)
> >
> >
> >
> >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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