[MOBY-l] Apologies, a hint for MIPS-Service substitutions, and an invitation

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:51:58 -0700, Andreas Groscurth  
<groscurt at mpiz-koeln.mpg.de> wrote:


> I was wondering how you store this information ? are they mapped to the  
> services/datatypes etc in the moby central database ?

At the moment we're not entirely sure where to put it.  I am loathe to put  
it in Moby Central as we don't yet know what the quality of the annotation  
will be (though I guess Moby Central isnt' curated either, so... it  
probably wouldn't hurt).  Moreover, the Moby Central API isn't able to  
query at the level of detail that we will be capturing these annotations,  
so there's no compelling reason to put it there.  For now, we're putting  
it in a local RDF store, but we may eventually move it into Freebase  
(http://www.freebase.com/) to enable direct queries there.  we'll see how  
it goes.


> so my suggestion is to think about a tagging system (via dashboard / web  
> portal), which is permant available and allows everyone to tag moby  
> stuff ?!

Certainly I think we need a dashboard panel that contains the annotation  
interface (called "ED" - the Entity Describer http://entitydescriber.org;  
written  by our very own Eddie Kawas :-) ).  ED is currently a bit too  
tightly linked to Connotea, but we're in the process of ripping it out and  
making it more standalone for this Jamboree.

Eddie, what do you think of a dashboard ED panel?

M

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Mark D Wilkinson, PI Bioinformatics
Assistant Professor, Medical Genetics
The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research
Providence Heart + Lung Institute
University of British Columbia - St. Paul's Hospital
Vancouver, BC, Canada