frange schema needed?

[spficklin]

Are the frange and other ancillary schemas that come with Chado still needed? We're wondering if for Tripal v4 we need to keep supporting those schemas.

[scottcain]

My recollection is that those are needed by the GBrowse adaptor, and I'm pretty sure there are still people using it. If anything, I suspect the right thing to do would be to move it into the main schema. Other schemas are probably less necessary. For example, I have no recollection of whether anybody/thing uses the gencode schema.

[spficklin]

That sounds like a good idea. If we moved those tables into the main schema will that break the GBrowse adapter? Does it specify the schema in the queries?

[scottcain]

I've spent some more time with this and realized that I misremembered: the frange tables and functions are not used by the GBrowse adaptor, so we need to figure out who if anybody does use it and run it by them. I'll send an email to the mailing list and post a copy in Slack.

[jogoodma]

FlyBase is not using it.

[scottcain]

I sent an email to the mailing list a year ago, and this issue has been sitting here this long, I think it's safe to make the change @spficklin suggested (ie, moving frange to the main schema). I have a rather strong suspicion that nobody is using it, but one way to find out is to make the change! :-)