Property talk:P685
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identifier for a taxon in the Taxonomy Database by the National Center for Biotechnology Information
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P685#Single value, SPARQL
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P685#Unique value, SPARQL (every item), SPARQL (by value)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P685#Item P225, search, SPARQL
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P685#Entity types
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Source: Q13711410
[edit]Use stated in = Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (Q13711410) as a source. --Tobias1984 (talk) 09:51, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Formatter
[edit]I changed formatter from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy/$1 to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=$1 after discussion in ruwiki Biology project. New link is more useful, see new: $1=9783 and old: $1=9783. —putnik 11:47, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Name fluidity
[edit]Should P685 really have a single-value constraint? The NCBI taxonomy node does not refer to one fixed name like many other systems.
- While preserving the same NCBI ID, "taxa" entries get renamed and moved.
- NCBI IDs also get merged when two IDs are considered synonymous. When this happens one ID becomes a redirect to the other.
- NCBI IDs can also get un-merged when synonymization turns out to be a mistake.
Instead of cataloguing names, the NCBI system seems to be just naming "buckets of sequences", where the name can change – not unlike how Wikipedia likes to describe "groups of living things".
I propose:
- The single-value constraint should either be removed, or greatly weakened with an constraint explanation that "violations" are often actually fine.
- All NCBI taxIDs should ideally have a "date" qualifier owing to the fluidity. An ID that has been merged at a later date should probably not be directly updated to the new, redirected taxid.
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