[Lsid-developer] How to construct a valid lsid...

[Mike D. <mik...@ea...>]

Possibly this has been discussed before but I didn't see it in the =
mailing list...

How does one construct a valid LSID given an repository entry where no =
lsid is actually identified in the file (almost always the case).  That =
is, say I download a copy of a genbank file and I want to construct an =
lsid for an entry in the file.  Since portions of the LSID are opaque =
how can I actually construct a valid lsid and know it will resolve since =
the my original genbank record doesn't contain and LSID in the record =
itself. =20

I suppose the answer is probably to ask the web service which is the =
authority for the file I got but this could often be prohibitively =
expensive.  Most of the examples in the document assume I already have =
an LSID.  Is there an example somewhere that shows how to get one given =
a common resource (like GenBank or SwissProt for instance)?

Mike Dickson
mik...@ea...