[BioC] mouse4302.db vs mouse 4302

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Hi Richard,

Richard Friedman wrote:
> Dear bioconductor list,
> 
> 	The mouse4302.db annotation package is listed as Version 2.02 of the  
> annotation
> for mouse 4302 and was packaged Mon Oct 22 10:15:57.
> 
> 	The mouse4302 annotation package is listed as Version 2.01 and was  
> packaged
>   Thu Oct 11 11:31:47 2007.

The 2 packages contain the same data but in a different format. This difference
is transparent to the end-user so you could use either one or the other but we
recommend you always use the .db version whenever it's available (the .db
packages are SQLite-based, which is the format we are moving all our annotations
to, while the other packages are environment-based, which is the classic and
soon to be deprecated format).

> 
> 	Should I there use mouse4302.db as the more recent and authoritative  
> of the 2 packages?

Yes, please use mouse4302.db. The other one (mouse4302) is provided for backward
compatibility only and will be dropped in future versions of Bioconductor.

Cheers,
H.


> Or is it simply one with different contents?
> 
> 	I realize that the answer to this question may seem pretty obvious  
> but I am wondering
> why mouse4302.db has a different name and not simply the same name  
> and a different version number.
> So I thought I would ask to make sure.
> 
> Thanks and best wishes,
> Rich
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