[Bioperl-l] OBDA/Flat question

[Lincoln Stein]

Sounds good.  Let's write up a publication for Bioinformatics.

Lincoln

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 09:15 am, Brian Osborne wrote:
> Elia,
>
> There's been little discussion of OBDA. On the other hand, it hasn't been
> well publicized. It's known to Bioperl insiders and those who attend
> bioinformatics meetings but I assume that many Bioperl users are neither
> insiders nor attenders. For quite some time I would wonder "What is this
> OBDA that they're talking about?" and "What is this registry that they keep
> talking about?" With a publication and some more publicity at bioperl.org
> there should be more interest, particularly amongst the "power users".
>
> What I've done is taken the doc/howto/BIODATABASE_ACCESS.txt file and
> converted it to Docbook, so we can put it up on the Web sites, this will
> increase the visibility of OBDA a bit. The authors are Lincoln, Heikki,
> Peter S., me, and Aaron. You might want to double-check it, though I've
> done little editing.
>
> Brian O.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bioperl-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org
> [mailto:bioperl-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org]On Behalf Of Elia Stupka
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:11 AM
> To: bioperl-l at bioperl.org
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] OBDA/Flat question
>
> > I've been playing with OBDA and everything works well, and the notion
> > of
> > unifying all one's sequence retrievals with a single user interface is
> > an
> > excellent one.
>
> Annoying and provocative question, but important for future hackathons:
> has anybody seen any traffic on the list with regards to the
> Registry/OBDA system? Is it being used at all? Could it be because
> people usually decide which sequence retrieval system (flat,
> relational, perl, java) they like and never bother using more than one?
>
> Elia
>
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