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Synonym nodes

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sapphire-arches commented

In order to reduce redundancy in the database, it would be helpful if you could create "synonym" nodes, i.e.

H2SO4 - Atomic Mass - 98.074 g/mol
Sulfuric Acid - Atomic Mass - 98.074 g/mol

would become

H2S04---------\
               \
                *- Atomic Mass - 98.074 g/mol
               /
Sulfuric Acid-/
chrismaximin commented

It's coming. Probably sometime this month. It's probably going to work this way:

# you have two statements like this
Sulfuric Acid -> synonym -> H2S04
H2S04 -> Atomic mass -> 98.074 g/mol

# then when you search for:
{exactly: "Sulfuric Acid"} - Atomic mass
# it will work out the valid statements (score > 0) declaring synonyms and will return the statement H2S04 -> Atomic mass -> 98.074 g/mol

Does that make sense to you?

sapphire-arches commented

Yup, sounds good.

chrismaximin commented

Error of copy/paste; I wrote:

# it will work out the valid statements (score > 0) declaring synonyms
# and will return the statement Sulfuric Acid -> synonym -> H2S04

What I meant to write was:

# it will work out the valid statements (score > 0) declaring synonyms
# and will return the statement H2S04 -> Atomic mass -> 98.074 g/mol

aka it will transparently return the matching statements for all synonyms, not the statement declaring the synonym.

sapphire-arches commented

Ah, ok. That makes more sense. Side note, got any datasets you would like me to import?

chrismaximin commented

I've got no priorities of data importing for the moment but when I'll have them, if they're really too big for me to process them myself, I'll let you know!

sapphire-arches commented

Reopened to be closed when actually implemented.

chrismaximin commented

Perfect.

chrismaximin commented

Closing Github issues, as we got a brand new website (with discussions) to play with: http://thebigdb.com/ !