I've brought in the three key people here on the EG side - Eugene
(does the
web
side of this); Dan (main data production manager) and Paul Kersey
(the EG
PI) -
some of them are on holiday now, but I suggest perhaps setting up a
phone
conference (and/or Adam could you come for a visit?) to get this as
straight as
we can - I suspect there will both be short term fixes and more
longer term
infrastructural fixes here.
The DAS coordinate system scheme already handles multiple assemblies
for a
given taxon fairly well (via the "authority" part). So it sounds
like the
main thing that's missing is a sensible way of distinguishing between
strains. Given that the CSs are already defined by XML elements with
multiple attributes (many of them optional), would adding an (also
optional,
of course) strain attribute get things 95% of the way there?
I dont think this quite works; the whole thing goes fractal here in
that multiple
groups assign "their" assemblies to the same strain id so you have hte
same problem,
just one level lower (I think).
At the last EBI/NCBI meeting we got to more clarity on there being
tracking identifiers
for assembly series. I think this is the long term solution. But it
needs to be pushed
out to bacteria, systems in place, and populated.
In the meantime we should do something practical to at least allow DAS
servers to be
mounted against EG web sites (I think this is Adam's use case).
...but I am not the expert here. Each time I think this is simple
it .... doesn't end up
that way.
Thomas.
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