Re: [GMOD-devel] DB API for Chado

[Chris M. <cj...@fr...>]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Pinglei Zhou wrote:

>
> >>  --  + integrated-db policy: remove exons and all featurelocs
> >>  --      (preserves data attached to features)
> >>  for integrated-db, even if no other data attached(assume we have way to
> figure
> >> out 'other' data), do we still preserve the frame (gene/transcript/protein)
> ?
> >
> >Not sure what you mean here
>
> for integrated-db, we means to attach both sequence and genetic data to
> feature, what happen if we try to detete a gene moldel WITHOUT any genetic data
> attached in integrated-db, will still only delete featureloc and exons, or wipe
> out all structure ?

Again, it should be up to the db admin for the particular MOD; but in this
case I think the default behaviour for "delete_gene_model" to be
consistent no matter what the data in the db is. So the gene would always
"stick around" - however, it wouldn't be visible in any queries that
joined featureloc


> Pinglei
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