Re: [Gmod-schema] defining organism groups

[David E. <em...@mo...>]

Hi,

If it isn't too much trouble, could I ask that you wait till next week 
before making the changes in the organism module?  One of our developers 
here at FlyBase, Kathleen Falls, has been focusing on reorganizing 
organism/species data in FlyBase recently, and I'm wondering whether 
she has some schema changes in mind.  Unfortunately, she's on holiday 
till Monday.  

If you can wait, I'll make sure we get back to this thread first thing 
next week.

Best,

-Dave

>From gmo...@li...  Wed Sep 23 14:13:14 2009
>> To: Naama Menda <nm...@co...>
>> Cc: sc...@sc..., gmod schema <gmo...@li...>
>> Subject: Re: [Gmod-schema] defining organism groups
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
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