[Gusdev-gusdev] Sequencetype Table

[jinal j. <jh...@us...>]

Hi,

Can anyone explain what the subtype,hierarchy,strand field means in dots.sequencetype table

I am planning to load 4 replicons of agrobacterium out of which

1 is circular dna
1 is linear dna
2 are cirular plasmid (with names At and Ti)

so do you think this categorization is OK

#  NUCLEOTIDE_TYPE  SUB_TYPE  PARENT_SEQUENCE_TYPE_ID hierarchy  strand   name

1) DNA              null       null                     ??         ??      DNA
2) DNA              circular   1                        ??         ??      Cir DNA
3) DNA              linear     1                        ??         ??      Lin DNA
4) Plasmid          circular       1                    ??         ??     At-Plasmid
5) Plasmid          circular       1                    ??         ??     Ti-Plasmid


Can 4 and 5 be represented as one entry (both have same types. Just the names are different)? Is strand field for ss/ds or +/-???? My guess is that it should be for ss/ds but I thought it would be great to get other ideas from this group.

thanks for your help...

--Jinal

p.s Sorry for bombarding this group with questions, but I really wanted to clarify how the whole thing works together with its dependencies, before loading the sequences. I looked at the Schema Browser but I didn't see much description of these fields