potential of using out-dated data/tools

[trvinh]

Provided taxonomy data together with the preprocessed genome data can lead to the using of invalid NCBI taxonomy, which causes problem when visualizing output using PhyloProfile. I suggest we should:

• download latest NCBI taxonomy for the first time install hamstr
• create script to check for outdated tax ID in the preprocessed genome data (either remove that species, or replace the invalid ID by the new one)

The same can be applied for annotation tools (pfam, smart, tmhmm,...). But it requires automatic tests for testing the compatible of the new version with the current data (for example check if any using functions got deprecated from the new version).

Only the preprocessed genome data (blast_dir, genome_dir, weight_dir) should be downloaded from our server.

[trvinh]

taxonomy index files take long time to be generated
=> pre-process and deliver together with genome data (but need regularly update)