Charlton Callender

Relationship between umask and created directory permissions

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Hello. I am trying to understand the relationship between umask and the permissions created directories have. I expected `dir_create` to follow the system umask setting (like shell `mkdir path` or...

hasFields doesn't return true for null values

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hasFields only returns true if a document has the field and the field is not null. Keys returns all keys even if they are null. It would be nice to...

Pull genbank files with Accession numbers

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The NCBI is phasing out GI numbers per this [announcement](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/news/03-02-2016-phase-out-of-GI-numbers/). The code works for now but [`vdb.parse`](https://github.com/blab/nextstrain-db/blob/master/vdb/parse.py) needs to be updated to get genbank files by accession number and not...