Re: [Gmod-schema] redundancy in databases table

[Don G. <gil...@bi...>]

Scott,

I believe common usage is these database name abbreviations are
case insensitive. I.e., people tend to use varying case, but
they should be unique either way; all uppercase is common
for the acronyms, some are CamelCased.  Pfam is the way Pfam folks
use it. 

On this same subject, why is there the, to me, redundant or non-standard 'DB:' 
prefix on these database names?  That is confusing to software as well as not
common usage as far as I know.  Also, I end up with chado db table name fields
full of both 'DB:somedb' and 'somedb' due to this.

-- Don