[MOBY-l] Comment on the MOBY Client behaviour

[Gudmundur Arni Thorisson]

  Hey, Mark & Co., is there an article of some sort (short summary, full 
paper, whatever) describing the BioMOBY system? I realize that the system 
is still in its infancy, but I am writing a short paper mentioning BioMOBY 
and I'd like to cite something a bit more meaty than just a URL, if indeed 
the journal allows even that... :|  I couldn't find anything useful on 
biomoby.org, hence this mail to the list.


            Mummi

On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 10:56 AM, mwilkinson at gene.pbi.nrc.ca 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just found a behaviour in the client that I want to raise in case any
> of you were confused by it.
>
> If you do the following "thread" of transactions:
>
> Generic/Keyword -> Flybase --->GO_Term -> TAIR ----> Sequence -> PBI-NRC
> ----> BLAST  you will find that the namespace of the Blast reports
> continues to be TAIR/Locus.  This is not an error per se, as the
> namespace and ID attached to the Blast report are, in fact, TAIR/Locus
> id=123456...  but  it looks confusing, I agree.  Since the Client rips
> any object apart (including Blast reports) to find out what's in their
> innards, it does successfully find a base object with namespace TAIR and
> ID whatever, and despite the fact that you have a blast report in your
> hand, you could conceivably send that back to TAIR to retrieve the
> original sequence again... and in fact, this is the first optionon the
> drop-down list of available services which is what brought this
> behaviour to my attention  :-)
>
> It is going to take some clever Client design to prevent people from
> doing this and confusing themselves!!
>
> M
>
>
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