db

A database authority. Typical dbs in bioinformatics are FlyBase, GO, UniProt, NCBI, MGI, etc. The authority is generally known by this sortened form, which is unique within the bioinformatics and biomedical realm. TODO - add support for URIs, URNs (eg LSIDs). We can do this by treating the url as a uri - however, some applications may expect this to be resolvable - to be decided