Backport MGI_Desc_Parser from ensembl-xref (!431) · Merge requests · ensembl-gh-mirror / ensembl

Created by: mkszuba

Description

Port changes made to MGI_Desc_Parser in ensembl-xref, including unit tests, back to ensembl:feature/xref_sprint.

See ENSCORESW-3216. Originally worked on by Prem.

Salvage more work from the 2018 xref sprint.

Increased test-suite run time (note: Travis does not automatically execute tests from misc-scripts/xref_mapping yet).

Have you added/modified unit tests to test the changes?

Yes.

If so, do the tests pass/fail?

They pass.

Have you run the entire test suite and no regression was detected?

Yes (including tests from misc-scripts/xref_mapping), no regression detected.