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Table 1 Unique and non-unique identifiers in databases used by SNAD

From: SNAD: sequence name annotation-based designer

Database

Identifier

Uniqueness

Example

GenBank1

gi number, primary ID

+

1234567

 

version number = accession.version

+9

AY123456.1

 

accession number

-

AY123456, NC_006558, NP_000483

 

locus/sequence name

-

MTVCG, SCU49845

UniProt2

accession number

+

Q10AA9, P47123, A2BC19

 

entry name

-

INSR_HUMAN

EMBL3,4,5

accession number

+

X64011, M10051, J00231, AJ000001, AY123456

 

entry name

-

HSINSR, BUM

SeqHound6,7

gi number

+

1234567

 

accession number

-

AY123456, NC_006558, NP_000483

 

locus/sequence name

-

BTACHRE

EnsEMBL

Gene/Transcript for Human8

gene ID, transcript ID

+

ENSG00000133103, ENST00000222982

  1. 1)http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=helpentrez&part=EntrezHelp#EntrezHelp.Entrez__the_Life_Sci
  2. 2) http://www.expasy.ch/sprot/userman.html#AC_line
  3. 3) [28]
  4. 4) http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Documentation/User_manual/usrman.html#3_3
  5. 5) http://www.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dbfetch
  6. 6) [29]
  7. 7) http://search.cpan.org/~cjfields/BioPerl-1.6.0/Bio/DB/SeqHound.pm
  8. 8) Gene and Transcript part of EnsEMBL, http://www.ensembl.org/index.html
  9. 9) Some replaced or removed records in GenBank have no accession number but they can be retrieved from GenBank with the primary ID.