[MOBY-dev] data by reference - a request for comments

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:06:38 -0700, Pieter Neerincx  
<pieter.neerincx at gmail.com> wrote:


> That doesn't sound very appealing to me. I use quite large data  
> structures and can have tens of thousands of them in a collection (think  
> of oligos for micro arrays.) If I can only replace the primitives with  
> references, I would still have to send a BioMoby XML structure with  
> hundreds of thousands of references replacing the primitives.

Hmmm... that's a situation that we had NEVER considered!  Putting xlinks  
into a component of the Moby message higher than the mobyData block was  
not a scenario that came up during our discussions in Tokyo.  the xlink  
was really only intended to carry data, not data + moby message  
structure...  but I suppose it COULD!

How do others feel about this?

M



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Mark D Wilkinson, PI Bioinformatics
Assistant Professor, Medical Genetics
The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research
Providence Heart + Lung Institute
University of British Columbia - St. Paul's Hospital
Vancouver, BC, Canada