[Gmod-help] FlyBase Chado mapping tables

[Dave Clements]

Josh, Hilmar,

I am at a conference and I had to *buy* internet access.  I feel icky (and
more than a bit spoiled).

Josh, this is not what I was picturing, but I agree with Hilmar - it is darn
useful.  I don't think the format lends itself to anchors (dangit).

How hard is it to indent the SQL, rather than present it as one continuous
string of text.  I'm not suggesting that anyone manually indent it, but I'm
wondering if the text was originally indented.  Also, some of the queries
select many columns and it is not always immediately obvious which one is
the field in question.  In such cases, is it worth the *manual* effort to
bold the column?

Also, once the page has settled I'd be happy to manually update the few long
lines that don't have embedded spaces so that the SQL resizes with the
window.

Thanks for doing this,

Dave C


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Josh Goodman <jogoodma at indiana.edu> wrote:

> Hi Hilmar,
>
> Thanks for your message.  Its good to see that you think they would be
> useful.  I'll continue putting up more mapping docs and will collapse them
> into one page in order to simplify things.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
>
> Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>
>> Hi Josh,
>>
>> Dave is at a conference starting this afternoon and so it may take a
>> little until he gets to respond, so I'll just chime in briefly.
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Josh Goodman wrote:
>>
>>  I put up a rough draft of the FlyBase Chado page (
>>> http://gmod.org/wiki/index.php/FlyBase_Chado) along with a rough
>>> approximation of what the field mapping docs will look like (
>>> http://gmod.org/wiki/index.php/FlyBase_Gene_Report).
>>>
>>
>> This looks like an extremely useful piece of documentation! It also shows
>> on the side how you are organizing the data, and what vocabulary you are
>> using, so it could be a great resource to others who are ramping up to do
>> similar things.
>>
>>   What I would like to keep doing is setup a new page for each FlyBase
>>> data class that has a mapping table.  I tried putting them all into one page
>>> but I started to get warning messages about editing large pages from
>>> wikimedia.
>>>
>>
>> I wouldn't worry about the warning message unless you are on a slow and/or
>> spotty internet connection or some kind of ancient browser. I've had no
>> problem whatsoever editing pages that vastly exceed the limit that seems to
>> trigger this.
>>
>>    -hilmar
>>
>
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