Currently the equivalence of species (e.g. "Rano") and species groups ("RT-1") is treated superficially as an optional argument to to_string and compact_string methods, which rolls up the sequence representation for all species in a group.
Based on conversations with some of the IPD / comparative MHC committee folks, it seems like it's not actually valid for the minor species in a group (e.g. "Rara" for "RT-1" or "Caru" for "DLA") to auto-convert the allele names upwards.
So, we need a different option to convert only the major species in each group. Probably this should be part of the Parser instead of an option for string representation.
Currently the equivalence of species (e.g. "Rano") and species groups ("RT-1") is treated superficially as an optional argument to
to_stringandcompact_stringmethods, which rolls up the sequence representation for all species in a group.Based on conversations with some of the IPD / comparative MHC committee folks, it seems like it's not actually valid for the minor species in a group (e.g. "Rara" for "RT-1" or "Caru" for "DLA") to auto-convert the allele names upwards.
So, we need a different option to convert only the major species in each group. Probably this should be part of the
Parserinstead of an option for string representation.