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Databases with version numbers :( #158

Closed joncison closed 7 years ago

joncison commented 7 years ago

Databases should never have version numbers ... so a systematic cleanup is needed (of everything where toolType == "Database portal"

joncison commented 7 years ago

snip

hansioan commented 7 years ago

I specifically remember that the JASPAR database has versions, I am not sure about others though... Perhaps an initial solution would be to remove version numbers for databases that have version numbers like "1" or "1.0". I see in the data that there are databases that have versions other than "1" or "1.0".

hansioan commented 7 years ago

Another example is Bgee: https://bio.tools/tool/Bgee/version/13 http://bgee.org/

""" 2016-07-06 Release of Bgee version 13.2: """

hansioan commented 7 years ago

I know technically this is a tool that references a database rather than the actual database, but until we register the databases separately from tools, I think users add information that reflects the database version that is accessed via the database portal tool, rather than the actual version of the database portal tool.

joncison commented 7 years ago

yeah, the JASPAR server is available in 2014 and 2016. Bgee in contrast just has one server, the number 13 I guess refers to the underlying database, as you say.

In any case, we're not going to end up tracking versions, so I'd just strip them out in all cases except where we have multiple entries for a given named database portal (such entries will need consolidating)

hansioan commented 7 years ago

Removed version for 391 entries with toolType == "Database portal" that do not have multiple entries for a given named database.