You wait ages for somebody to develop a bioinformatics tool called ‘Kraken’ and then three come along at once by Keith Bradnam.
From the post:
So Kraken is either a universal genomic coordinate translator for comparative genomics, or a tool for ultrafast metagenomic sequence classification using exact alignments, or even a set of tools for quality control and analysis of high-throughput sequence data. The latter publication is from 2013, and the other two are from this year (2014).
Yet another illustration that names are not enough.
A URL identifier would not help unless you recognize the URL.
Identification with name/value plus other key/value pairs?
Leaves everyone free to choose whatever names they like.
It also enables the rest of us to distinguish tools (or other subjects) with the same names apart.
Simply concept. Easy to apply. Disappoints people who want to be in charge of naming things.
Sounds like three good reasons to me, especially the last one.