Hi Egon,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Egon Willighagen
<egon.willighagen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just discovered that there seems to be a limit on the length of
> property values... some properties for compounds, however, are longer,
> the InChI being a good example... 400 chars is not enough for some
> compounds in Wikipedia, like teixobactin (Q18720369)....
>
> This length is not defined by the property definition itself (InChI
> (P234)), so I am wondering if this max length is system wide, or if
> there are options to vary it? A max length of 1024 is better, though
> still would not allow InChIs values for all compounds...
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you, and a happy new year,

There is currently a character limit in place for everything (labels,
description, values, etc). The reason is that we need to make sure
people don't start entering long text that in the end again isn't
machine-readable. The property you mention is currently scheduled to
be converted to the new identifier datatype. What we could consider is
increasing the length for values allowed in this particular datatype.


Cheers
Lydia

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