[MOBY-l] RE: [Biojava-l] To Do Question

[Iain Darroch]

> 
> In terms of whether MOBY is redundant - yes, it probably is.
> 

Unless I've missed the point I dont think this is the case.  MOBY will
help to form standards for bioinformatics web services which is extremely
important.



> In terms of whether MOBY is a waste of time - no (especially since
> some of us are funded to do research in it ;-), but more importantly I
> think *web services* is in its infancy, not just MOBY. So having
> multiple implementations out there is a Good Thing(tm). 
> 
> None of us know what we're doing, we don't know what's going to work
> or what the community is going to need two years from now. Why not
> have multiple implementations available so that we can test different
> ideas. Personally, I want to make sure that there is a completely Open
> solution available - open protocols and open code.
>