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Inspector Javert’s Xref Database | Biopragmatics #34

Open utterances-bot opened 2 years ago

utterances-bot commented 2 years ago

Inspector Javert’s Xref Database | Biopragmatics

On top the issue of resolving identifiers to their names, the bioinformatics community has a hard time figuring out when two identifiers from different databases are equivalent. You know who else has the same problem? Inspector Javert. Get ready for a Les Miserables-themed post on how to address this long-standing problem.

https://cthoyt.com/2020/04/19/inspector-javerts-xref-database.html

egonw commented 2 years ago

When you write "However, I think they’re limited in scope", what limitations do you mean?

cthoyt commented 2 years ago

From the front page at https://bridgedb.github.io/, it says:

Standardised access to Gene, Gene-Variant, Protein, Metabolite and Interaction Identifier Mapping Services

so I just mean that the scope is limited to these things that are written here. There are all sorts of other kinds of entities and modalities that have equivalences (and related mappings) that I would want to have in IJXD

egonw commented 2 years ago

Yeah, we're already moving that. Thanks for the reminder. I need to update that text asap!