Sanjiva, I'm glad you like the idea. I think there is a need for something like this in the bioinformatics community.
Well, I could start modeling some classes that I'm somewhat familiar with. Unfortunately, though, I'm not a bioinformatician, so I'm not exactly the person who should be doing the actual domain modeling. What I (and many others at ASF) can bring to the table is the infrastructure which allows the objects to be stored/retrieved. Maybe I could try to recruit some help from some domain experts (bioinformaticians) to start developing the model. Then, we could bring some subset of the finished product in as an ASF incubator project. How does that sound? I was really just wanting to figure out if ASF would be willing to host a project such as this one. James -----Original Message----- From: Sanjiva Weerawarana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:19 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Biological Object Model Project IMO its a great idea (assuming nothing like that exists) but how can ASF help you given that the incubator is meant to bring in existing projects with working code rather than ideas? Sanjiva. On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 18:35 -0400, James Carman wrote: > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
