[Gmod-help] nominate SADI for GMOD as a new GMOD component

[Scott Cain]

Hi Ben,

I think there is a future for SADI in GMOD.  If you haven't already,
please take a look at:

  http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Membership#Software

Ideally, I'd like to see SADI talking to Chado rather than
SeqFeature::Store (or actually, in addition to, as there is no need to
do away with SFS connectivity), since when you are limited to SFS, you
are limiting the amount of information you can get to sequence
annotations, while a Chado database could provide so much more, like
genotypes, phenotypes, and natural diversity data (and stocks,
publications, controlled vocabularies...)

I suggested at BOSC that you consider trying Bio::DB::Das::Chado for
SADI, and I still think that is a good idea, though that solution
still suffers from the same limitation that connecting to a SFS
database does, namely that it would be limited to sequence
annotations.  However, I would hope that this would just be a first
step, and as more functionality for accessing different data types
could evolve from there.

How does that sound?

Scott


On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Ben Vandervalk <ben.vvalk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi GMOD help,
>
> I have just released the initial version of "SADI for GMOD", and I would
> like to nominate it as an official GMOD component. SADI for GMOD is a set of
> Perl CGI scripts which provide an RDF view of a Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store
> database.  A basic description of the project is here:
>
>          http://code.google.com/p/sadi/wiki/SADIforGMOD
>
> I would love to put this information on the GMOD wiki, as that would greatly
> increase the project's visibilty.
>
> I am employed to work on SADI for the next year or so, so I am in a very
> good position to provide support and further development for SADI for GMOD.
> Also, I am game to continue supporting the project in the longer term as
> well.
>
> Thanks for your consideration!
>
> -- Ben Vandervalk
>



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