[Psidev-pi-dev] molecule table thoughts

[Angel P. <an...@ma...>]

More and more I don't think our molecule lookup table is gaining us
anything. Specifically, last time at the EBI, Martin and I were discussing
modifications and how best and proper to represent them and we came to the
conclusion that the modification information should live directly next to
the scoring information. Also taking into account that a protein
determination step is an analysis, we can see that representing the protein
groups can also be defined within the result set containing the scoring
information.

So the only thing that the molecule table buys us is an easy look-up for
information without context and possibly (although not proven) file size
savings. The cost is that the format MUST reference the lookup table, adding
complexity to encoding and reading the actual results.

I don't think the convenience is worth the cost. Can we move the identified
compound information to be collocated with the results information?

-angel