On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Dan Staines <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As it is I can't see any easy way of you doing this apart from reusing >> one of the existing bits of dataset metadata e.g. the version. Are you >> already using this to store any useful information? >> > > Unfortunately, yes - this is the assembly version so its important to leave > this unmolested... > > One possibility though is to use this taxonomical ID as the datasetId. Its > not always guaranteed that we will always have unique for some bacterial > isolates strains, but this might be a possibility. > Unfortunately the datasetId is tied up with how MartEditor manages its templates so reusing that would lead to problems. The dataset description is not currently using by MartView to do anything so that is a possibility for reuse for storing your tax IDs. Cheers Damian > > 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/ >
