[DAS] More annotation/Reference servers please

[Brian Gilman]

Cheung, 

	You bring up some very good points. Don't worry we're thinking
about this on a day to day basis. Growing this community will not be hard
once you enable the Lab Scientist with the technologies that we are
cobbling together. Don't worry about the annotation servers they will come
down the pipe soon enough.

	What you should be worried about is solving the top 3-4 most
common problems in sequence based analysis. From there we can start
thinking about non-coordinate based approaches. 

				Best, 


					-B

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Brian Gilman <gilmanb@genome.wi.mit.edu>
Sr. Software Engineer MIT/Whitehead Inst. Center for Genome Research
One Kendall Square, Bldg. 300 / Cambridge, MA 02139-1561 USA
phone +1 617  252 1069 / fax +1 617 252 1902


On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Cheung, Foo wrote:

> Hi all
> sorry to say the obvious...
> 
> We need to seriously address how to attract more
> people/universities/institutes/commercial companies to setup das annotation
> servers. I am the only one here who does DAS specific work ie setting up
> servers and developing viewers, and then its only when I am not overtly busy
> but I have been doing a lot over the last few weeks at home.
> 
> What annotations do people what?, what client functionality do scientist
> want?, what is going to get scientists to adopt this technology? Why should
> they adopt DAS? The bottom line is, DAS has to provide something that
> "forces" scientists to use it, something that goin to break their habits of
> going from one annotation web site to another. Its time to start thinking
> Microsoft style :-)
> I am not sure what that is? 
> 
> 
> I believe that DAS is way cool, there are some amazingly bright software
> developers working on the java clients and some top class scientists pushing
> DAS but I would like someone to address how to get "customers" lining up
> each morning at 8:50am waiting to get in the front door?
> 
> I think this has been addressed previously but was not really resolved.
> 
> Foo
> 
> 
> 
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