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

[Ben Vandervalk]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Scott Cain <scott at scottcain.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
Hi Scott,

No problem about adding Chado support. That shouldn't be a big deal and I
would like to do it anyway.  Also, I am cool with the requirements on the
GMOD members page.

Later!

-- Ben



>
> 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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> Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                   scott at scottcain dot
> net
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