DBXrefs

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

Katica Ilic wrote:
> Hi Pankaj,
> 
> I thought we agreed to use PO as the database name, so that every
> definition 'created' by POC ontology developers would have PO as
> database name. Term ID (which also has PO as prefix) would indicate where
> the term came from (by the number range). Is there any reason for doing it
> otherwise?
> 
Personally, I don't recall this conversation, though, there was a 
discussion on how are we going to put the DBXrefs for the definition, if 
they are coming from people in Monsanto for example. The reason was 
Monsanto do not want anyone to know if this term is tracing back to 
their ontologies.

Therefore the agreement was that such cases where we do not want to 
disclose the identity, the database name will be "Poc" not "PO"and the 
database id will be "curators". In rest of the instances developers will 
use their own initials and the respective database id. Atleast this is 
also followed at GO. Every developer is not from GO for instance.

You may want to cross check, following DBXrefs are already using the 
consistent style.
definition_reference: Poc:curators
definition_reference: TAIR:lr
definition_reference: GR:pj
definition_reference: MaizeDB:lv


> By the way, I did not know about the lower case initials. I have it all in
> capital letters (and I also told Leszek to follow the same). Any
> particular reason for this? I ma just curious, of course we can always easily change
> it, but it seems that most of us have used capital letters so far (though
> I am not sure about Felipe).
> 
My suggestion was based on precedence and following it with a consistent 
style. Infact it maintains the consistency when we are pulling out 
DBXrefs from species specific ontologies.

Pankaj


PS: I forgot to add the generic POC DBXref. Here it is

database name : Poc
database id: curators
description: The Plant Ontology Consortium


> Katica
> 
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Pankaj Jaiswal wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>Hi Everyone,
>>
>>Here are the my suggestions for DBxrefs. Please use the consistent style
>>by configuring the DBXrefs in your DAG-Edit DBXref library. Try to use
>>lower case letters for your initials. Unless you have modified the
>>definition available from another source do not add your id in addition to
>>the source DBXref. If the definition is completely given by the developer
>>based on his/her understanding, then the use of dveloper id DBXref is
>>valid.
>>
>>I hope this will clear up some of the inconsistencies.
>>
>>Pankaj
>>
>>
>>database name : TAIR
>>database id: kl --->for Katica
>>description: The Arabidopsis Information resource
>>
>>Similarly create ids for any other developer from TAIR
>>
>>database name : MaizeGDB
>>database id: lv --->for Leszek
>>description: maize Genetics and Genomics Database
>>
>>create ids for any other developer from MaizeGDB, e.g. mary (mp)
>>
>>database name : UMSL
>>database id: fz --->for Felipe
>>description: University of Missouri, St. Louis
>>
>>create ids for Toby (tk) and Peter (ps)
>>
>>database name : GR
>>database id: pj --->for Pankaj
>>description: Gramene Database
>>
>>database name : ISBN
>>database id: 0080374913-->for Plant Anatomy by Fahn A
>>description: International Standard Book Numbering
>>
>>similarly create any other ISBN ids for Essau's etc.
>>
>>
>>database name : AP web Glosssary
>>database id: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/top/glossarya_h.html
>>description: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
>>
>>
>>
>>database name : Web
>>database id: URL --->for any other web resource
>>description: Website
>>
>>
>>
> 
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