Naming

• Very useful to have shared, standard names

  • Name and version of the database
    • SWISS-PROT version 38
  • ... of the format of the text
    • SWISS-PROT version 38
    • (but some formats don't change every new releases)
  • ... of the fields in the database
    • sequence
    • sequence_block alphabet="IUPAC.Protein.Unambiguous"
    • id type="accession" reference="primary"
  • ... of database cross-references
    • dbxref type="genbank-id"

Notes: