BioMoby

Registry issues:

Need a separate mailing list for Registry API updates?

Synchronization of registries needs to be formalized
– Andreas: Master & Secondary sync example
– LSID based
– filters + or – provides rules to exclude/include various services as they come in for sync
– Martin suggests adding this as a feature to jMoby and/or as a panel in Dashboard
– it should be fomalized somehow (the methodology and features)
– Andreas will take the lead on this issue, he will send out a list of features that are currently implemented, we will discuss (on list) what other features we want and Andreas will say yes/no as he sees fit, and he will make this functionality available in Dashboard.

Need releases on a regular schedule

Registry is a mishmash of Perl and Java

In attendance:

Mark, Eddie, Wendy, Richard, Ivan, Andreas, Paul, Martin, Mylah

We started with jokes about the danger of having the core Moby developers in the same room of a brick hospital built on top of a geological fault…

Issues that came up in introductory presentations:

Atrtribution of data to providers
– set logo? new methods…

Should the Object ontology have multiple representations for any given concept?
– e.g. FASTA and DNA Sequence are redundant…
– we need to find a way to encourage object re-use
– we need a “rule-base” to use the SeaHawk transformation rules rather than registering a new Moby object; or do we still need to register a new object?
– how much of this complexity should we expose the developers to?

In what order do we introduce the concepts of Moby to newcomers? How do we explain “the point” to newbies? The idea of data-type re-use, for example.

There’s no “one ring/protocol to rule them all”
– TAPIR/DIGR/BioCASE
– SSWAP
– Moby
– Gramene format

Ivan apologizes for his English 🙂
– it really isn’t as bad as he claims it is!

Need to support large datasets

Need to support document-encoded rather than RPC
– Java libraries no longer support RPC SOAP
– Perl library doesn’t support anything OTHER than RPC SOAP
– this is clearly a problem!

Support “template datatypes” to contain other kinds of objects

In attendance:

Mark, Eddie, Wendy, Richard, Ivan, Andreas, Paul, Martin, Mylah

We started with jokes about the danger of having the core Moby developers in the same room of a brick hospital built on top of a geological fault…

Issues that come up:
Atrtribution of data to providers