Re: [Gmod-schema] defining organism groups

[Robert B. <rm...@co...>]

Naama Menda wrote:
> I think it should be in the organism module since it has FK to organism.
Well lots of other things have FKs into organism that aren't in the 
organism module.  That just means whatever module it goes into has to 
have a dependency there.

However, Naama's proposal seems more general than just taxonomy or 
phylogeny, since this could be used to keep track of groups of organisms 
that, for example, have red fruits.  ;-)

BUT, what about keeping taxonomy/phylogeny data (I don't really know the 
difference between these two, but there probably is one).  It looks to 
me like the Phylogeny module is primarily concerned with storing trees 
(i.e. directed acyclic graphs) of organism relationships, while Naama's 
proposal would store arbitrary graphs.

Seems to me like these are good tables to add (do people agree with this?)

Question is, should they go into

A.) the organism module
B.) the phylogeny module
or
C.) a new module?

I would vote for A.  Thoughts from others on this?

Rob