said proposal attached,

   michael


> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:06:45 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Michael L. Heuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Biojava-l] Re: GO client API in biojava
>
>
> Mattew Pocock wrote:
>
> > Tom Oinn wrote:
> >
> > > I'd be happy to put our GO browser and client API into biojava, what
> > > would you need for this to work? I'm guessing that a standard schema
> > > (probably the one used by the stanford people) and the appropriate ego
> > > adapter for it, but then you have everything there already.
> >
> > This would be great. I presume from the docs that the interfaces are
> > de-coupled from the database schema? The only stumbling block currently is
> > that ego seems to be GPL which would kill our lGPL licensing. I'm sure we
> > can come to some arrangement about that, though.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the best way to go.
>
> The ego api, although the basis for a very nice tool (thanks, Tom!), is
> specific to the Gene Ontology, and is read-only.
>
> With structured vocabularies and ontologies becoming more prevalent in the
> various bioinformatics projects (GO, biosql, DAS 2.0, etc), maybe we need
> to aim a bit more general?
>
> I should be able to run the package of interfaces we use for a structured
> vocabulary api through the lawyers this afternoon, to submit to biojava as
> a proposal.
>
>    michael
>

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