[GeneX-dev] Re: GeneX Enhancement Request

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

The Canonical Sequence Features table was originally part of the schema, but is 
no longer, although there are miscellaneous nonfunctional references to it that 
we have not cleaned out yet, as you discovered. The idea was that a user has 
their name for a sequence feature, and then NCGR provides a master list of 
"canonical" names that can be tied to the user feature. These canonical names 
were supposed to be some sort of master reference for something like a gene. 
This idea was abandoned when NCGR discovered we did not have the resources 
available to maintain the Canonical table.

Greg Colello
NCGR Software Developer

>Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:58:03 -0600 (MDT)
>To: ge...@nc...
>From: rre...@in... (Dick Repasky)
>Cc: rre...@in... (Dick Repasky)
>Subject: GeneX Enhancement Request
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>Below is the result of your feedback form.  It was submitted by:
>    Dick Repasky (rre...@in...)
>    on Monday, September 24, 2001 at 13:58:03
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>subject: GeneX Enhancement Request
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>realname: Dick Repasky
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>email: rre...@in...
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>Organization: Indiana Univ
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>Location: Bloomington, IN
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>Country: USA
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>Operatingsys: Solaris
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>Otheropsys: request for document enhancement
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>Enhancement: The background web page that explains the database schema mentions 
UserSequenceFeature and CanonicalSequenceFeture.  UserSequenceFeature is 
described in the schema.pdf file, but CanonicalSequenceFeture is not.  For us it 
is necessary to know what's in the CanonicalSequenceFeature in order to decide 
whether genex meets our
>needs.
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>Thanks,
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>Dick Repasky
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