RefSeq accessions

LocusLink is an NCBI project to link information applicable to specific genetic loci from several disparate databases. Information maintained by LocusLink includes official nomenclature, aliases, sequence accessions (particularly RefSeq accessions), phenotypes. Enzyme Commission numbers, map information, and Mendelian Inheritance in Man numbers. Each locus is assigned a unique identification number, which additional databases can then reference. LocusLink is described in greater detail in Chapter 7. 

To create our terminology containing both internal terms and external terms we semiautomatically extract terms from available external resources (e.g., MeSH, EMTREE, UniProt). Then we fit the extracted terms to our data structure and preserve the reference to the source system because sometimes terms are very specific to certain databases. We refer to the terms specific to a database as local terms. These local terms are stored in a dedicated data structure, the Metastore. It must be noted that we refer to accession codes and identifiers used in databases such as UniProt, RefSeq, and GO as local terms (see Tables 31.1 and 31.2). 

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It is worth remarking that the RefSeq (Reference Sequence) number for a genome generally corresponds to the number on the Accession line of its documentation, and is often referred to as the Accession number. In this chapter, we shall use the term RefSeq number throughout for consistency. 

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