Hello, We had a quick exchange on RRIDs on this list before, if I am not erroneous. Michael is particularly supportive of them and again, correct me if I am wrong and if you care, we had another not ultimately decisive discussion about them at the Debian Med Sprint this year. Once you are made aware of them, though, you start seeing them and so I thought, well, let us see what they look like. The Bowtie entry is RRID:SCR_005476 at https://www.scicrunch.org/scicrunch/Resources/search?q=SCR_005476 . Sadly, I yet did not find a way to directly link to the entry.
What triggered my interest was the omicsTools.com folks who would very much like to link to us. The RRID is very natural to them. They have sent me a list of their mappings of their entries to our packages and by looking only at the package name some assignments are indeed ambiguous. So, there is some immediate use case here. I was also kindly informed that our Bowtie 1.x package is outdated (upstream moved to github, so the watch file was outdated). So when together with a colleague I today got around fixing that, I also added an entry for the RRID, see here: https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/bowtie/trunk/debian/upstream/metadata?view=markup I think it kind of looks O.K. If there are no objections from your sides, I will add more of these references over the upcoming months. Would be great to see others chime in on that. From our side we would get access to the "co-use statistics" the RRID folks provide, which may help our users to construct their workflows. Best, Steffen
