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Is the use of LSIDs intended to replace the use of other identifiers (e.g. accession numbers)?

April 26, 2017Accession identifiers lsids Numbers replace

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Is the use of LSIDs intended to replace the use of other identifiers (e.g. accession numbers)?

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No. Accession numbers (for example) have independent value, and the use of caBIG grid identifiers/LSIDs is not intended to replace them. Identifier resolution will require an LSID to retrieve a data object, however data objects can be retrieved by other object attributes like accession number using query.