[Gusdev-gusdev] LoadPfam

[Pjm <pj...@sa...>]

Hi all,

While updating LoadPfam I have come accross some interesting "things". A PFam 
release has links to databases such as 'INTERPRO; IPR000308;'. The old schema 
just had a link DBref ->ExternalDatabase. The new schema has a middle table to 
take into account a release of database.

My first issue is populating these tables - I found some XML for GUSdev that I 
am tweaking to setup ExternalDatabase and ExternalDatabaseRelease for testing 
LoadPfam. I will assume all releases for now are version one, just for testing. 
  When I do it proper, shall I just insert the latest release only?

Do I need to create a small plugin to create new DB releases as needed? 
Shouldn't be hard.

LoadPfam itself will assume any reference to a DB in the PFam file is to the 
latest DB. For example, picking the last release of INTERPRO will mean getting 
the youngest record by using ExternalDatabaseRelease.release_date for INTERPRO 
and link a SRes.DBref to it.

How does this sound?

Have a good weekend,
Paul.