[Biojava-dev] BioJava3 Use Cases

[Richard Holland]

That's what I've thought too... ease of use (and ease of extension)
seems to be people's highest priority. I'll give it till the 1st as
promised then make a summary.

cheers,
Richard

2008/7/29 Michael Heuer <heuermh at acm.org>:
> Richard Holland wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'd like to repeat an earlier request for use cases to guide the new
>> BioJava 3 development work. We have a wiki page for this but it hasn't
>> seen many updates:
>>
>> http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava_3_Use_Cases
>>
>> Could anyone who has a task which BioJava cannot currently achieve, or
>> does not achieve correctly, please add that task to this wiki page, so
>> that we can try and implement it in the new code.
>>
>> A template for a use case has been provided on that same wiki page
>> which you should follow when submitting your own suggestions.
>> Basically the rule is that saying something like 'I want microarray
>> support' isn't likely to get much of a response, but asking for a
>> specific function, e.g. 'I want to be able to parse MAGE files' or 'I
>> want to use XYZ technique to analyse my own chip designs', will get
>> you a lot further.
>>
>> I'm setting a cut-off date for the initial list of use-cases at August
>> 1st. Whatever's on the page at that point will be considered for
>> implementation in the first phase of development over the next 6
>> months, along with updates or transfers of functionality from the
>> existing code base where appropriate. Anything that gets added to the
>> list after that date will only get implemented in the second later
>> phase, date indeterminate as yet, unless whoever submits the use case
>> also chooses to submit their own code to solve it!
>
> Hello Richard,
>
> Very brief notes from the Biojava BOF session at BOSC 2008 are up at
>
> http://biojava.org/wiki/BOSC2008_Presentation
>
> Much of the conversation was about how to make Biojava more convenient to
> use rather than about what features were missing.
>
>   michael
>
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Richard Holland
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Eagle Genomics
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