[Biojava-dev] use of the URN field

[mark.schreiber at group.novartis.com]

Hello -

Since the early days biojava sequences have had the ability to store a URN 
but this is not often used. I would like to propose that the GenBank, EMBL 
and SwissProt parsers get changed to make use of this in the following 
way:

GenBank derived sequences have the URN "genbank/gi number" eg 
genbank/12345
EMBL derived sequences have "embl/sv line" eg embl/U87107.1
SwissProt/UniProt derived sequences have "uniprot/ac line" eg 
uniprot/P12345

What do people think? 

Mark Schreiber
Principal Scientist (Bioinformatics)

Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD)
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