[Open-bio-l] Re: [Bioperl-l] Re: [Bioperl-guts-l] bioperl commit

[Jeffrey Chang]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 03:51:06PM +0100, Keith James wrote:
> >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Chervitz <stevechervitz@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>     Steve> What do people think about creating a new cvs module called
>     Steve> "biodata" where we can start housing these things? Each
>     Steve> Bio* release could include the latest export from
>     Steve> biodata. This is one area that is truly cross-platform and
>     Steve> cross-language.
> 
> I think we really need something like this. I've just been updating
> the unit tests for the biojava blast parser and had to generate a load
> of new blast output where I couldn't steal from the BioPython test
> data. There's biochemical data we could share too.
> 
> With search program output I think it's good to have both sets where
> query and database data are constant across different program versions
> and also sets which exhibit boundary conditions or sundry
> wierdness. Having all this in one place can only improve all the
> projects involved.

Yep, I'm completely agreed.  It's silly to keep up with this stuff
separately, since the overlap is obvious.  Count me in!

Jeff