Published May 13, 2015
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Identification at local and global scale: a case for using the Compact URI (CURIE) for life science data
Authors/Creators
- 1. European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Description
Panel A) A Local Resource Identifier (LRI) is not suited to global scale identification because of inevitable collisions: “9606” corresponds to a Pubmed article, a CGNC gene, a PubChem chemical, as well as an NCBI taxon (Homo sapiens), a BOLD taxon (Bombycilla cedrorum), and a GRIN taxon (Catha edulis)
Panel B) Prefixing is often used to indicate the source of an LRI, but prefixes themselves are often undocumented and collide.
Panel C) Prefixes may exist in alternate forms. When all of the alternates are not known, collapsing equivalent identifiers is tedious and incomplete.
Panel D) CURIE syntax addresses these issues by having a prefix whose relationship with a resolving namespace is clearly documented.
Notes
"10 Simple rules for design, provision, and reuse of persistent identifiers for life science data" was submitted 26 May, 2015 to PLoS Computational Biology. The manuscript was deposited in Zenodo in advance of peer-review. https://zenodo.org/record/18003
