[ENSCORESW-271]. Fixed the test being too chatty during cleanup by setting the RUNTESTS_HARNESS_NORESTORE before firing off a thread

[ENSCORESW-270]. Fixed issue with can() call which was returning a boolean flag rather than the coderef can() actually returns. Switched to local variables and the entire thing looks fine now

former script nonsense_transcript_attribs.pl moved to module format to be run as part of the production pipeline
list of populations has been updated after discussion with variation

if there is only one row, result can be retrieved by fetching the first element of the de-referenced array, which is itself an array where each element corresponds to a column

Revised fetch_all_by_Slice to allow for a proper feature count method that includes overlaps and clones. Response to lack of performance in generic_count for Variation (request from Laurent Gil)

Enforced strict matching in fetch_by_region synonym lookup. Returns undef, rather than giving the user what might be the correct answer, and emits a warning. Only allowed to auto-select coordinate system when it is not known.

Fixed regression problem in fetch_by_region, where a valid synonym with an invalid coordinate system caused a never-ending loop. Added a coordinate system check to ensure the synonym query is on the correct coordinate system.

[ENSCORESW-264] Can now handle odd sequence region names involving . - _ now. The supercontig names seemed to be a good source of these

[ENSCORESW-217] & [ENSCORESW-263]. Added automatic generation of the primary assembly file and cleaned up the readme slightly pending full re-design.

[ENSCORESW-262]. Customised the Exon summary as hash, gene and transcript summaries have been improved. Biotype mapper can ask objects for their SO term and knows Variation objects are already annotated with a code. BioType mapper caches SO retrieval so it is a massive speed increase for large result sets.

[ENSCORESW-261]. Edits to allow for easier regulation adaptor creation. Grab the species name from the DB if it wasn't given to the adaptor and make sure we avoid returning the coord system core adaptor if the group was funcgen

will get unique regions with variation_feature, stops it from counting snps twice on chromosome Y

The old way was possibly the WORST way to blank a LRU cache by replacing it for a bare hash. Possible memory leak fixed ...

rather than return all toplevel slices, returns all slices with genes
does not affect much species with a reduced number of toplevel slices but increases things considerably for large number of toplevel slices

Adding patch from James Allen where a copy/paste bug has meant the incorrect setting of end_Exon to be on the $translation and not alternative $translation