Hi Dan, Am around at the EBI tomorrow if you want to have a chat about this. The aliases won't work. Lets see exactly how the collaborator wants to use it.
Cheers Damian On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Dan Staines <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on providing some > additional metadata within a dataset for a mart. I need to add an additional > piece of metadata to each of our ensembl genomes mart datasets, in this case > the taxonomy id (and hence is inappropriate to be put into our gene-centric > mart tables). This information should then be accessible to our collaborator > via the perl api. Short of encoding it into the datasetId or version > attribute or providing an external lookup list/table, is there anywhere > sensible to put it in the DatasetConfig? I already added it to the aliases > attribute of the template DynamicDataset element, but I don't think this > ends up in the final dataset config as a discrete entity (please correct me > if I'm wrong). > > Does anyone have any suggestions about the best approach to take? > > Cheers, > > Dan. > > -- > Dan Staines, PhD Ensembl Genomes Technical Coordinator > EMBL-EBI Tel: +44-(0)1223-492507 > Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Fax: +44-(0)1223-494468 > Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/ >
