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Examples of provisioning resolvable Unique Resource Identifiers (URIs).

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posted on 2017-06-29, 17:29 authored by Julie A. McMurry, Nick Juty, Niklas Blomberg, Tony Burdett, Tom Conlin, Nathalie Conte, Mélanie Courtot, John Deck, Michel Dumontier, Donal K. Fellows, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Philipp Gormanns, Jeffrey Grethe, Janna Hastings, Jean-Karim Hériché, Henning Hermjakob, Jon C. Ison, Rafael C. Jimenez, Simon Jupp, John Kunze, Camille Laibe, Nicolas Le Novère, James Malone, Maria Jesus Martin, Johanna R. McEntyre, Chris Morris, Juha Muilu, Wolfgang Müller, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Murat Sariyar, Jacky L. Snoep, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Natalie J. Stanford, Neil Swainston, Nicole Washington, Alan R. Williams, Sarala M. Wimalaratne, Lilly M. Winfree, Katherine Wolstencroft, Carole Goble, Christopher J. Mungall, Melissa A. Haendel, Helen Parkinson

Compact URIs (CURIEs; Panel A), URIs (Panel B), and Access URLs (Panel C) with no redirection (the Zebrafish Identification Network [ZFIN]), in house redirection (UniProt and Ensembl), and third party resolvers (using identifiers.org and digital object identifiers [DOI]). In each case, the URI can be algorithmically derived from the CURIE because the local identifier (local ID) portion itself is included (unmodified) within the URI. Access URL design patterns differ substantially by provider and may change over time. As long as access URLs (and other ephemeral links) are not used as the referenced identifier, they can include prefix and colon (Mouse Genome Informatics [MGI]) or not (Ensembl), they may include the entire local ID (Biosample) or not (DOI), and they may include type (MGI) or not (ZFIN).

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