Alexander Schuetzle (Schuetzle at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote:
: Hi all,
: I have some questions about standardisation efforts in the
: genom research (biology).
: Are there any exact and unique definitions (syntax) for
: the dataobjects ( like genes, chromosomes, . . . ) in the
: genom research?
: Are there some kinds of methods to handle these objects, i.e.
: how to represent ( graphical, textual, ...) them and so else?
: If you know some (de facto) standards or conventions please
: inform me or give some hints where I can get some further
: informations!
Well GenBank at NCBI (the United States National
Center for Biotechnology Information) has ONE set of standards
and routines for using them. I beleive they collaborate with
some of the Genome Databases in developing these standards,
but I'm not absolutely sure that they do. The people who
run OMIM, GDB and other databases may have different standards
and routines.
For GenBank information:
The DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank Feature Table: Definition, Version 1.06,
World Wide Web
Universal Record Locator (URL)
ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ncbi-genbank/docs
Also avaiable there are a set of C progamming language
routines for dealing with "objects" defined in the ASN.1
documents.
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