Identifiers (was: [Biocorba-l] BSANE and bioCORBA)

[Scott Markel]

Martin,

Martin Senger wrote:
> 
> >
> > The URN's Namespace Identifiers are the content types
> >
>    Which means that it contains "what" is being identified, or does it
> also (or may it also) contain the format of the object (or a format of
> an attribute of the identifiable object)?
>    For example, if this identifier is used for a sequence object, what can
> be there? I guess that put there just a "sequence" is not that usefull
> because we know that it is a sequence because it appears in the sequence
> object.
>    Generally speaking, I feel that I like the idea to have there the
> content type - but I need more explanation what it (can) contain.

We've been using x-sequence-na, x-sequence-aa, x-sequence-alignment-aa,
etc.  There's some internal discussion here about whether or not to
include formatting information.  For GenBank and SwissProt the format is
known.  For MySequenceList it's not, so x-sequence-na-fasta may be
useful.

Scott

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