[Bioperl-l] BIO2001 & I3C - comments?

[chris dagdigian]

Believe it or not, we (open-bio) are currently hosting the I3C website. 
The URL is http://i3c.open-bio.org

Eventually they will probably be moving to www.i3c.org

As far as I can tell (you need to ignore the hype that made it into the 
press releases and the wire articles) the current state of the I3C 
implementation is that (a) it works (b) it is only currently suitable as 
a tradeshow demo.

That being said I don't want to knock them because they have gotten much 
accomplished in a short time. The demo they created for BIO (my company 
Blackstone was involved) was basically a proof of concept showing that 
all these various companies and groups could tie products together and 
swap data.

-Chris



Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> This is only tangentally related to BioPerl, but I'll throw the question
> out there anyway as I can't think of a better forum for this discussion:
> 
> Was anyone on the list at the BIO2001 meeting to hear the presentation
> from the I3C about a data exchange format for biological information?  I
> was not able to attend, but I'm quite interested in what they have
> accomplished, and how.  This is very much the theme of the Saskatoon
> "fishing trip" that I have been discussing privately with some of you.
> I think this would be a very important matter to discuss at that
> meeting, but I haven't yet be able to find much "hard" information on
> exactly what the I3C is proposing.... all I know is that it is XML
> based...
> 
> Can anyone out there enlighten me with a URL?  Does anyone have an
> opinion (educated or otherwise ;-) ) on their proposals?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Mark
> 
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