Avoid calling slice->is_circular when there is no slice. Required for ProteinFeatures which cannot have a slice.

By default MySQL ignores differences in case and trailing spaces on varchar.
This is a change to prevent the insertion of a case sensitive variation of
an already existing meta_value. If we match exactly on the parameter, the
fuction detects the value is not present and the following insert statement
will fail since the value will be considered a duplicate.

And so be it

fix: use write credentials for creating indices

/standard_name=
record rather than a /note for transcript records
JIRA ENSCORESW-1707

Escape seq_region_name before querying the synonyms

Do not skip first mapping when making chain file

Fix in mapper for insertion SeqEdits