NCBI is phasing out sequence GIs
We should check if this breaks anything for us.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/news/03-02-2016-phase-out-of-GI-numbers/
We should check if this breaks anything for us.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/news/03-02-2016-phase-out-of-GI-numbers/
TL;DR:
accession.version
.Here's another place where we use a GI number in the Entrez API. I'm not sure if this will be a problem, but at the moment that's the only thing returned for this call by Entrez (no accession number), so we can't change it (yet).
The geninfo_identifier
column in our Reference
table contains GI numbers and their presence is used to determine if the reference was originally dowloaded from the NCBI (and hance can be re-downloaded that way).
If we remove this column, we should add another column to contain the original source of the reference. This would have been a better option to start with I guess.