[GUSDEV] Additions to GUS Schema

[Eric E. S. <es...@vb...>]

> From: Jian Lu <jl...@vb...>
> We have EC numbers loaded into SRes.EnzymeClass and TIGRFAM ids into 
> SRes.ExternalDatabaseEntry, but we couldn't find a place within GUS 
> schema to store the relationship of them. 

This brings up the larger question of how best to integrate 3rd party 
additions into future GUS releases.

Steve Fischer <sfi...@pc...> wrote:
 > this seems reasonable to me.

Is is possible to achieve a consensus on how best to address limitations 
such as the one Jian Lu's code addresses so that a robust solution can 
be devised and included in later releases?  Perhaps other groups have 
developed similar (or perhaps totally different) solutions.  I would 
like to see more discussions of this type in this mailing list.

We would be more than happy to contribute our enhancements if they could 
be vetted by the GUS team (and other interested parties) and 
incorporated into the distribution.  While I don't presume that GUS was 
intended to be a BioPerl-style collaborative project, we would really 
like to contribute.  What can we do to help this happen?

Cheers,
-- 
Eric E. Snyder, Ph.D.
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0447