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BridgeDb: new library for dealing with identifiers
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07 Sep '09 13:30
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I'm co-developer of a new library for dealing with identifiers called BridgeDb. I'm posting this here because I thought it might be of interest to developers of SBML tools, and I'm looking for feedback.
What is BridgeDb? It...
- lets you find identifiers by name, e.g. for user-friendly entry of correct identifiers.
- lets you find cross-references using one of the many available web services (e.g. BioMart, PICR) or a relational database
- deals with metabolite, gene and protein identifiers all the same way
- simply creates valid link-out URLs
- is compatible with the MIRIAM URI standard
- is open source (Apache 2.0 License)
See http://www.bridgedb.org for more information.
I'm really looking for feedback: do you think this library may be of use to you? What is missing? What features would you like to see? We're ramping up to release version 1.0. Right now the API is not yet frozen, so this is the perfect time to influence what we're doing.
The library is in Java, but we're maintaining a REST interface to interact with other programming languages.
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