St. Louis still uses the MatchTable as do I for my own personal ACEDB
instances. We could probably learn to live without them if they are
removed. I'm cc-ing Warren Gish on this for his opinion.
-Ian
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Richard Durbin wrote:
> MatchTable is an array class, which is defined in some whooks/ file and does in
> fact work. I think there is a matchtable.c or something like that somewhere.
> Its use is deprecated, but I think that the St Louis human annotation pipeline
> use it, at least they did once. Ian Korf, now at Sanger, would probably know.
> The aim was to efficiently store very large numbers of matches. We now put these
> into SMAPPed subobjects using the old tag structures, which are more flexible in
> that they allow, for example, Align information.
>> Perhaps we should remove all this, but in that case we should remove the code
> as well.
>> Richard
>> Ed Griffiths wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Currently in the wspec/models.wrm held in the acedb CVS repository, in each of
> > the Sequence, Protein and Motif classes there is the following line:
> >
> > Match_table UNIQUE ?MatchTable
> >
> > There is no actual definition of the class MatchTable.
> >
> > I would like to remove the code that deals with this since it appears to be
> > redundant.
> >
> > Is this in fact true ? Does anyone still make use of this tag ?
> >
> > cheers Ed
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