[MOBY-dev] One use case that is an example of a potential avalanche of others...

[Andrew D. Farmer]

Hi Mark-
Thanks for this. I certainly don't think we should turn any use case away as
being too "primitive"; anything that represents a real problem for
people trying to get their work done should probably be considered of the
highest value! Besides, I'm fairly confident that even something as
"primitive" as averaging can lead to any number of complicating factors in the
world of bioinformatics ;) Also, as you have observed in the past, it's just
as important at this stage for us to get a handle on what MOBY is not, so
that we can strike the appropriate balance between simplicity and power...

I did get the auto-update use case from CVS; I wonder if it might be more
appropriate to consider that to be an extended "scenario", and to factor
out more atomic use cases that could be considered pieces of functionality
that might be appropriate in multiple contexts? Just a thought, others
may have different opinions...

Andrew Farmer
adf at ncgr.org
(505) 995-4464
Database Administrator/Software Developer
National Center for Genome Resources

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I don't know if it is worth me writing up other example use-cases that
> are so "primitive"... I think the important lesson is sufficiently
> learned by this one.
>
> Andrew, did you pick up the use case that I submitted to the CVS
> repository a few weeks ago - the self-updating MOD databases?  I just
> want to be sure that it gets into the consolidated list, though I should
> probably re-work it into the new template...
>
> I'll try to get a couple of others I have in-mind written up before
> Friday.  I just got back from the Bioinformatics Integration Center of
> Excellence planning committee meeting last night so I am in catch-up
> mode right now!
>
> Cheers all,
>
> M
>
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