[BioC] Why org.At.tair.db is named differently?

[Simon Anders]

On 2012-07-24 17:46, Peng Yu wrote:
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/data/annotation/
>
> Almost Genome wide annotation packages following the name convention
> org.species.eg.db. I'm wondering why org.At.tair.db is named
> differently. Should its name be modified to following the same
> convention?

The thing before the ".db" is the source of the information. "eg" stands 
for "Entrez Gene", and "tair" for "The Arabidopsis Information Resource".

   Simon