[Babase] Disperse Dates in Babase
Lacey Maryott
lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Thu Sep 18 09:38:20 EDT 2008
yup
kfenn wrote:
> Lacey,
>
> All of these changes and the reasons for the changes will be
> documented in the changelog on the wiki, right?
>
> Thanks,
> Tabby
>
> Lacey Maryott wrote:
>> In evaluating whether or not our disperse date criterion are still
>> the best to use (it turns out they are), Susan and I found some
>> errors in the way disperse dates were assigned from 1992-1999 (See
>> documentation on wiki for assignment rules.) We have gone through and
>> checked them all against the system of assigning dispersedates, and
>> it looks like only a few disperse dates were incorrect in the db.
>> Below I have included the names of those individuals affected by this
>> error, as well as their old and new disperse dates. Their disperse
>> dates will be changed today.
>>
>> If you have any questions about this problem/resolution, please feel
>> free to ask!
>>
>> WAL - old disp = 1993-02-03; new disp = 1993-02-04
>>
>> TUZ - old disp = 1993-07-11; new disp = 1993-06-14
>>
>> DAV - old disp = 1996-03-26; new disp = 1996-02-16
>>
>> BEA - old disp = 1996-09-04; new disp = 1995-12-23
>>
>> DIV - old disp = 1999-08-03; new disp = 1999-07-08
>>
>> Also, DAL and JIK disperse dates will be removed from the db, as
>> there is not enough information to inform their disperse dates,
>> formerly entered as 1993-06-11 and 1995-12-16 respectively.
>>
>> Again, if there are any questions, please ask :)
>>
>> Lacey and Susan
>>
>
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Lacey Maryott
Alberts Lab
Department of Biology
Duke University
ph: 919-660-7306
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Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu
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