[BioSQL-l] case sensitivity in biosql accessions under BioJavax/Hibernate

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:17 AM, James Procter wrote:

> The worrying aspect is that as far as I can tell, protocols like DAS  
> do not play nicely with this... case is usually ignored for ID lookup.

Right. Data exchange protocols and query APIs are a different story  
from the data model of the databases that underpin them.

> I guess this means that the middleware that does the transformation  
> is always going to have to (optionally) use specific case- 
> insensitive BioSQL language bindings

Right. I'm not sure though that this is a big onus. Is it?

	-hilmar
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