DBXrefs

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

My suggestion is to keep it informative. It's best to use the individual 
DB acronym instead of PO. It's less effort on POC to manage this. POC 
should assign only the  number space.

Pankaj

Leonore Reiser wrote:

> cool-then does it really matter then if its TAIR:ki or PO:ki? since GO was
> an unfunded collaboration long before it was a funded consortium, perhaps
> thats why the id space was less generic. i dont  think we need to be that
> complicated.
> leo
> 
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Pankaj Jaiswal wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>Leonore Reiser wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Im just curious about when these DBXrefs are being used and for what
>>>purpose.
>>>So when I included say TAIR:lr in a reference for a definition, I did to
>>>to  mean
>>>1) I wrote this definition myself from my own head OR
>>>2) When used with another citation (eg. ISBN:XXXXXX) it means the
>>>definition has been paraphrased or modified from its original text.
>>>
>>>
>>>I never used it to say-- these terms came from TAIR or whereever. Thats
>>>why we all have numberspaces... like the GO... and we track who added the
>>>terms in CVS...
>>>
>>>Do I understand the usage of these dbxrefs correctly?
>>>Leonore
>>>
>>
>>Yes you understood it correctly. Didn't I say the same thing.
>>
>>Pankaj
>>
>>
>>>>>>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
>>
>>
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