I meant "biological object model project." Sorry. -----Original Message----- From: James Carman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 6:35 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Biological Object Model Project
All, I would like to start a biological object model process (I need to come up with a catchier name) and I think ASF would be a great place for it. I currently work with a product called GKP (Genomics Knowledge Platform) from a company called Xteric and it works fairly well, but it is not open source. It's tough to get grant money from the government for software development if you're using something that's proprietary and not open source. You can't exactly tell a university that they have to spend $1M on a software package if they wish to use it for research. Anyway, what is needed in the Genomics/Bioinformatics world is a common, standardized, open source object model for us to develop applications against. I understand that I'm supposed to have a working codebase, but this is still a vision for me. However, if we started a project, I think we could get some real experts (bioinformaticians) to contribute and work towards developing a standard platform. Any thoughts? James Carman --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
