Updated to handle empty description in xref table - ENSCORESW-462

misc-scripts/xref_mapping/XrefParser/BaseParser.pm

@@ -908,10 +908,10 @@ sub add_xref {
   my $source_id   = $arg_ref->{source_id}  || croak 'add_xref needs a source_id';
   my $species_id  = $arg_ref->{species_id} || croak 'add_xref needs a species_id';
   my $label       = $arg_ref->{label}      || $acc;
-  my $description = $arg_ref->{desc}       || '';
+  my $description = $arg_ref->{desc};
   my $version     = $arg_ref->{version}    || 0;
   my $info_type   = $arg_ref->{info_type}  || 'MISC';
-  my $info_text   = $arg_ref->{info_text}  || '';
+  my $info_text   = $arg_ref->{info_text};
   my $dbi         = $arg_ref->{dbi};
 
   $dbi = $self->dbi unless defined $dbi;

misc-scripts/xref_mapping/XrefParser/RFAMParser.pm

@@ -160,8 +160,8 @@ sub run_script {
     next if (!$entry);
 
     my ($accession) = $entry =~ /#=GF\sAC\s+(\w+)/ ;
-    my ($label) = $entry =~ /\n#=GF\sID\s+([^\n]+)/; 
-    my ($description) = $entry =~ /\n#=GF\sDE\s+([^\n]+)/;
+    my ($label) = $entry =~ /#=GF\sID\s+([^\n]+)/;
+    my ($description) = $entry =~ /#=GF\sDE\s+([^\n]+)/;
     if ($accession) {
       if (exists($rfam_transcript_stable_ids{$accession})){
       #add xref