[MOBY-l] Biomoby and Taverna 1.2

[Rebecca Ernst]

Mark wrote: 
> Gosh... I *am* tired!

> I didn't mean to imply that....

> :-/



Hehe - it took me a while to get the meaning 'between the lines' ;-)

As you are in Manchestser we have the whole european day to discuss 
about collections ;-) With Tom you can even chat sitting together if you 
are so close ...

I was thinking about a way to tell you what my problem with this simple 
and collection thing is and I'll give it a very last try with a trivial 
example:

My favourite example to explain BioMoby services to non- informatics 
people is that I am a service provider running a laundry. Incoming 
objects are dirty laundry, out go clean clothes.

In your way of interpreting services the man in the laundry gets the 
information that you are either always bringing exactly 3 shirts to wash 
or you are bringing a not known number of shirts (one time you bring 2, 
the next time 15 shirts but it's *always* only  shirts)

What I am saying is that it *can't* be of any use to this guy to know 
how many shirts you'll bring - he will have to wash all of them, one by one.

But if someone is bringing three complete outfits belonging together (a 
jacket, a trouser, a shirt and socks ) I need to take care about this 
relationship and put them back together before giving it back.

Does this make sense to you??

Rebecca











markw at illuminae.com wrote:

>Quoting markw at illuminae.com:
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>>Granted, I would rather be in bed, but neither Eddie nor I are in Vancouver
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>>it would be inappropriate :-)
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>Gosh... I *am* tired!
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>I didn't mean to imply that....
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>:-/
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Rebecca Ernst
MIPS, Inst. for Bioinformatics
GSF Research Center for Environment and Health
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