dbd@THEORY.BCHS.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) (08/11/90)
I've come across three qualifiers in "questionable" locations. The first is the qualifer "/nomgen", found in the flat file gbbct. This is obviously an artifact since the release notes state this has been replaced by the "/gene" qualifer. The qualifiers "/map" and "/hgml_locus_uid" are contained in the "/note" qualfier. Given that most parsing methods for genbank flat files are of a line by line basis, it might be better to: 1) make these "REAL" qualifiers and move them out of the notes setion (shades of the old embl feature table in the comments section) 2) make continuation lines start at 23, not 22 so that these "fake" qualifiers do not appear to line parsers. There are also several sequences with old style EMBL feature tables in comment sections. dan
kristoff@genbank.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) (08/11/90)
Dan, Thanks for your reports. We'll look into the issues you raise and get back to you on this. -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank On-line Service Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net