Feb
16
Downloading all currently released BridgeDb identifier mapping databases
The BridgeDb project (doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-5) (and ELIXIR recommended interoperability resource) has several aims, all around identifier mapping:
provide a Java API for identifier mappingprovide ID mappings (two flavors: with and without semantic meaning)provide services (R package, OpenAPI webservice)track the history of identifiersThe last one is more recent and two aspects are under development here: secondary identifiers and dead identifiers. More about that in some future post. About the first and the third I am also not going to tell much in this post. Just follow the above links.
I do want to say something in this post about the actually identifier mapping databases, in particular those we distribute as Apache Derby files, the storage format used by the Java libraries.
provide a Java API for identifier mappingprovide ID mappings (two flavors: with and without semantic meaning)provide services (R package, OpenAPI webservice)track the history of identifiersThe last one is more recent and two aspects are under development here: secondary identifiers and dead identifiers. More about that in some future post. About the first and the third I am also not going to tell much in this post. Just follow the above links.
I do want to say something in this post about the actually identifier mapping databases, in particular those we distribute as Apache Derby files, the storage format used by the Java libraries.