(There’s another current discussion thread about “Gramps and recording and comparing DNA-matches”. In that thread, I ask a question which has broader applicability, and so I’m repeating it here as a new, more general discussion topic, in case people who have experience with this might not be reading…

At the moment I’m not using attributes for this, but I would rather have one data pair/triple/quadruplet for each value, than add a list of the same to one attribute field, but it will depend a little on what data, and if there will come an addition of fields for the attributes… A list of values ca…

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[image] GeorgeWilmes: Have you ever stored a set of delimited values within the value of a single attribute, and then done some coding to parse the values and use them in comparisons or calculations? I’ve normalized all my citations like this: [sourceIdentifier]/imgNumber (recordingDate, reco…

Thank you, Patrice. Here is an example of the kind of comparison I am thinking of. Suppose I use an attribute to store information about a segment of autosomal DNA. The attribute would contain several values: a chromosome number, a start position, an end position, and perhaps some other values. Now …

You could use attributes to store DNA data. How do you want to enter the data? How do you want to display the results of a comparison?

Hi Nick, As I mentioned at the beginning of this thread, this question arose from a different thread that was specifically about DNA, and I started this thread to discuss attribute parsing more generally. Please refer to the other thread for the DNA-specific discussion.

I asked similar questions in the other thread. I’m happy to write a prototype if someone gives me some sample data and describes how they want the results displayed.

Just spent a fair amount of time looking for the other thread. Since the Discourse site is so new, I expected it would be in the Gramps-Users archive… way too many search hits! If you can ‘quote’ another thread, it helps when trying to following the discussion. [image] Gramps and recording and c…

@Nick-Hall , If you shall write some prototype for dna, maybe you could see of you could use some of the python libraries thats already out there? most of them already have the algoritms for the most common Views already working… Lots of research labs use python and R in genetic research, and make t…

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GeorgeWilmes February 28, 2020, 6:47pm 10

Sorry Brian, it’s here.

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