[Open-bio-l] Agreed name for UniProt XML file format

Dave Messina David.Messina at sbc.su.se
Tue Jul 27 16:58:12 UTC 2010


> Or raise an error as it is ambiguous? But that wouldn't be in the spirit
> of Perl though would it? ;)

Perly or not :), I like this idea.

It has the advantage that when (if?) plaintext uniprot stops being used, and that ambiguity disappears, we can make 'uniprot' an alias of 'uniprot-xml'.


Dave

(or an alias to 'swiss', in the apocalyptic event that XML is abandoned.) 



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