[OWW-SC] Genbank Accession Number question

[Tom Knight]

The accession number is what is normally listed in journal articles.  
Version numbers are usually ignored, with the latest version being 
accessed.

You probably *do* want to handle genome accession numbers, which have a 
different format, such as NC_006055.

We may want support for EMBL and DDBJ numbers as well.  What do people 
think?

On Oct 9, 2007, at 6:55 PM, Bill F wrote:

> Accession Numbers and NCBI Lookup for Biblio Extension to OpenWetWare
>
> I'm looking into adding GenBank Accession Number lookup, a feature 
> which has been mentioned in the past. To do this, I need to know what 
> the set of information from GenBank would be that people would like to 
> see available.
>
> This is a cop of the the current comment on the Software/Features page:
> (http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Software/Feature_requests )
> 	• 	Initially, this might be just an extension to Biblio to allow 
> referencing by accession number. Eventually, this could pull in info 
> from databases.
> 	• 	See also 
> http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2007/07/scientific_blogging_p
>
> NCBI has an example of the full record they maintain:
>
>                         
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sitemap/samplerecord.html
>
> Would a pointer to a similar page for a specific accession number be 
> what's needed?
>
> The actual accession number for the example record is:
>
> "U49845".
>
> There's an additional version number on he next line:
>
> "U49845.1 GI:1293613".
>
>  Does the version number generally get used in citations or is the 
> Accession Number adequate?
>
> Using the Accession number, I can point the Biblio reference to the 
> NCBI page (similar to the example) for that particular number. Is the 
> version number also needed?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill Flanagan
> OpenWetWare.org
>
>
>
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