[Dynamite] July (attn Ewan)

[Guy Slater]

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Ian Holmes wrote:

> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> > > I heard mention that you cancelled all your trips in early July because of
> > > Ensembl deadlines. Does this mean that you won't be coming out to
> > > Pasadena. (I do hope it doesn't mean that; I think it's important that we
> > > have facetime for Telegraph -- I realise we will have some time next month
> > > when I am over but it would be good to have a day in July as well)
> > 
> > Nope. Passendena makes it as post 15th July ;)
> 
> Cool ;)

Yay!
 
> > > I still think we are on target for an ISMB poster, in fact I have
> > > committed to doing this with Gerry.

The deadline for poster abstracts is the end of this month (13 days).
I guess the abstract can be vague, but it will need to be soon.

> > > In June we can discuss what exactly will be needed for this. I hope to
> > > minimise the coding required, while maximising the spectacular-ness of our
> > > results. always the best way..
> > 
> > I like the way you are talking.
> > 
> > lets get all buzz words in there. I am looking for CORBA, XML, UML, Perl,
> > Python, Java, ASP, Co-location and open-source.
> 
> wow :)
> There are at least three in there I don't even know the meaning of.
> UML? ASP? Co-location?

Hmmmm.  I found UML and ASP, but am stumped for co-location.

http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=Unified+Modeling+Language
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=Active+Server+Pages
 
> I'm not sure how CORBA / Python / Java fit in, but I'm sure there is room
> for them. ;)
> 
> Re XML: in some ways I think our own language-like file format might be
> better; but we should probably be able to dump XML as well, if only for
> buzzword value. BTW Ewan did you know we now have Brad working at the
> BDGP? quite a result.
> 
> > any others?
> 
> Bioperl, wiki, HMMs...
> 
> I am also keen on introducing a new buzzword of our own ;)
> "object functional"
> 
> The idea is it's analogous to "object relational" (which is an object
> model that mirrors a relational database). "Object functional" is an
> object model that mirrors the properties of a mathematical function -- in
> our case, a likelihood function: Pr { sequence(s) | model, params }
> 
> i may end up submitting something about this to BOSC.. 

Yes!  I like "Object Functional" a lot.

DP can be implemented most elegantly in functional languages,
and if our object model behaves like that, we're laughing.

Guy.
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