(rather than 'not_biotypes'), for cleaner looking configuration.

canonical human-readable names of the hosts.

Reformat.

use alt_allele data from vega to populate core as gene names may not be up to date in core when alt_alleles.pl is run

  If the configuration parameter 'not_biotypes' is present, exclude all
  genes whose biotype is listed (but include all other genes).

  If the configuration parameter 'biotypes' is present, include all
  genes whose biotype is listed (as usual).

  It is an error to define both options in the configuration.

Only do block retrieval of repeats when we are caching our hits. Otherwise we're bringing back more data for no reason

added method fetch_all_by_display_label and changed fetch_by_display_label to return a gene on the reference slice if there is one

Removing the new_fast and replacing ISA with base. new_fast comes from Feature & should not be overriden. ISA is just nasty

Do not die when finding an InnoDB table, go on to the next database instead.

First pass attempt at a copy data command using sysread and syswrite to bypass buffers. Basic tests say that it works.