[Bioperl-l] GAME XML format - who's maintaining it?

[Chris Fields]

Sheldon,

What we'll do mark it for deprecation in the next developer release unless
someone steps up and decides to take care of it.  I noticed the last FlyBase
release only had Chado XML and no GAME XML, so I guess everyone's switching
to that.  I'll cc this to Sendu to let him know.

I suppose if anyone wants GAME format conversion we should point them to
Apollo.  We could probably state that in the deprecation statements.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sheldon McKay [mailto:mckays at cshl.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:33 PM
> To: Chris Fields
> Cc: 'bioperl-l'
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] GAME XML format - who's maintaining it?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I rewrote the SeqIO GAME XML modules a couple of years ago but I have
> not had much time to maintain them since then.  There does not seem
> to be a huge demand for GAME XML support in bioperl and Apollo now
> reads and writes chado XML.  Unless someone really wants to keep
> these modules around and would be willing to maintain them, I would
> vote for deprecation.
> 
> Sheldon