[BioC] NCBI LocusLink -> Entrez Gene transition

[Seth Falcon]

On Jan 31, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Bubba Gump wrote:
> I have been hearing some news about the upcoming move from LocusLink 
> to Gene from the NCBI 
> (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene and a web 
> article). How will this transition be handled in the BioC annotation 
> libraries going forward?

The Bioconductor team is tracking the data transition.  Once the 
transition is finalized, we plan to provide updated meta data packages 
built against the new Entrez Gene database in a timely manner.  These 
updated package will appear in the development branch of Bioconductor 
and will not be back ported to the current released version.

Needless to say, we won't be updating the LocusLink meta data packages 
after the database they are based on is no longer updated.

For those interested, here is link to NCBI's status page on the 
LocusLink to Entrez Gene transition: 
http://ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/help/LL2G.html

+ seth