Allow alphabetic characters in donor/sample ID field, not just numeric + dashes

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Histoimmunogenetics Markup Language (HML).

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Allow alphabetic characters in donor/sample ID field, not just numeric + dashes #42

Closed dvaliga closed 8 years ago

dvaliga commented 8 years ago

There will be a need to allow new sample IDs that may contain alphabetic characters.

dvaliga commented 8 years ago

This actually applies to the operational NMDP version of the public specification, NOT to the spec itself which allows any string of at least length 1 to be used.