http://www.nodalpoint.org/node/723 Comments for "LSID Implementation" en http://www.nodalpoint.org/node/723#comment-555 <p>Not a lot going on there yet is there. Worth keeping an eye on though. Someone should also write a utility for tracking dead sourceforge projects ;-)</p> <p>This new year, I find myself wondering if there will ever be use of common, accepted standards in life science informatics. The concept seems based on a notion that data providers will never change. Who knows if we will even be using the web as we know it in 10, 20, 30 years time?</p> <br class="clear" /> Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:45:37 -0500 Neil comment 555 at http://www.nodalpoint.org http://www.nodalpoint.org/node/723 <p>From the <a href="http://www.i3c.org/workgroups/technical_architecture/index.html">ic3-techarch</a> list:</p> <blockquote><p>The Life Science Identifier (LSID) specification is a proposal for uniform identification and retrieval of life science data. The current lack of a uniform system is an obstacle to automating high-throughput processing techniques such as genomic computational annotation and sequence array analysis.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://animorphics.net/lifesci/lsid/lsid_resolver_spec.html">LSID specification</a>, Sourceforge <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsid/">project page</a>.</p> <br class="clear" /> http://www.nodalpoint.org/node/723#comments Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:06:00 -0500 Greg 723 at http://www.nodalpoint.org