[MOBY-l] thinking about provision info and authoritative service providers

[Gudmundur Arni Thorisson]

   I would like to express my support for some sort of version system 
provided by MOBY, for service providers to use if they want. For instance,
  we here at CSHL, as part of our SNP consortium data coordinating work, 
would, in the near future, want to have a service that provides 
information and/or actions on SNPs, haplotypes and related items. In such 
a scenario, I myself would very much like to be able to say that a 
particular SNP or haplotype is of a particular version or build, as things 
like haplotypes would be defined by ever-changing set of underlying SNP 
genotypes. IF there were a mechanism in MOBY to do just that => excellent,
  I'd use that!


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> But make the assumption that people want to provide versioning
> metadata, then can we support them doing this in a standardised
> way? This should be possible. I suspect that webdav, for instance, has
> a standardised way of doing this. Anyone know for sure?
>
> I believe, for instance, that the GO database people are considering
> putting versioning metadata into their database. At the moment, you
> can only find out what version of the GO database you have by looking
> at the dump files you installed. If you have lost them, you are in
> trouble. It would be nice if there were a uniform mechanism for
> accessing this information with moby.
>
>
>>> If they provide simply several different services (for example on
>>> top of several versions of GenBank) then all of them should be
>>> registered as separated services by Moby central - with
>>> preference to have the version number in their descriptions.
>
>
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