[BioSQL-l] [BioPython] Authority in biodatabase table

[Peter]

On 1/1/08, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at gmx.net> wrote:
> (Sorry for this long-too-late reply. Going through old email that got
> left unread or unresponded.)
>
> Peter - you probably implemented something meanwhile that suits your
> needs. Just FYI, BioPerl leaves this empty too. The general notion
> for authority is that of the LSID authority field, but of course you
> won't be able to parse this out of any input file. The value for
> SwissProt would be uniprot.org, for example. For NCBI, I'm not sure -
> NCBI hasn't ever issued any LSIDs, but presumably it would be
> something like ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
>
>        -hilmar

Thank you Hilmar.

It seem's that the current code in Biopython is fine (the authority
field is left blank by default, unless the user supplies their own
value), and consistent with both BioPerl and BioJava in this regard
(thanks Richard).

Peter