[Bioperl-l] What's that number?

[Peter Wilkinson]

Well it would be nice if there existed some type of global namespace 
management for that sort of thing, however there is none.

I am afraid that we will have to put up with the mountainous clutter of 
sequences and annotations.

Now if someone wants to start some type of public registry for defining 
theses namespaces .... which would not be such a bad idea if one could 
prove how it would help the community. GO is an attempt for function, and 
HUGO for gene names ... no reason not to do it for namespaces 
(databasenamespaces ;) ).

Peter

p.s. perhaps a big pair of billy boots is good enough to wade through it all.





At 09:01 PM 23/10/2003 +0100, michael wrote:


>         Is there any code out there that can make an educated guess to the
>origin of any given (biological) ID/accession number?
>
>         X93993 AJ010957 are both valid EMBL accession numbers, P47202
>looks similar but is from swissprot (a bit of digging reveals the
>swissprot patten as /[OPQ]\d[A-Z\d][A-Z\d][A-Z\d]\d/ ).  Failing code is
>there a biological name space document out there?
>
>         I'm writing a public gene symbol submission form and want it to do
>the right thing regardless of where the data is pasted in.
>
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Peter Wilkinson
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