On 10 Jun 2007, at 6:38 pm, Steffen Moeller wrote:
On Sunday 10 June 2007 17:20:54 you wrote:
On 9 Jun 2007, at 11:27 am, Steffen Moeller wrote:
Once a (computational) biologist starts a new
project, (s)he wants the latest data no matter what and anything
older than
three months (or a week sometimes) is likely not to be acceptable.
Actually, my experience is that they tend to want diametrically
opposite things,
at the same time.
1) When starting a new project, they usually want the very latest
data.
2) But they usually then want to keep that data static for the
lifetime of
the project.
:o) very true. For 1) I hink that Debian packages for databases do
not work.
They might well work for 2), though.
... except that they usually want several versions present at once,
which
would mean a completely separate package name for each release. Ick.
But ... how can one directly access a feature on the genome that
has no
accession number because you have just found it across releases of
Ensembl?
* base pairs and chromosome ID does not work across (NCBI) releases
* centiMorgans are too vague
* distances in bp relative to the nearest genomic marker? Not too bad,
probably.
The easiest seems indeed to keep the data on which whatever results
are
computed which is diagnosed as behaviour 2).
Oh, yes, I'm not saying the requirement isn't *reasonable*. It just
makes life difficult!
Tim
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