On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 00:00 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > As far as I know there is no standard URI for a resource at NCBI.
Ah, but there is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/linking.html Given that this structure covers many quite distinct databases, it's a bit more complicated than what you propose, but it's serviceable. Larry