> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cellml-discussion- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Nickerson > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Jon Olav Vik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Nickerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> As for generic generation of HDF5 data structures from CellML models, > >> I think this would need some thinking :) Is there a generic way to > >> define a useful HDF5 data structure for any given CellML model? I'm > >> not sure... > > > > To my layman's eyes it seems most CellML models are sets of coupled > ordinary > > differential equations, for which it should suffice to save state > variables for > > each time point, a model identifier and parameter values. (Parameter > values must > > be easily searchable, allowing retrieval of results for a given > parameter set.) > > Adding results from post-processing should be left to the end user. > > I think the searching should be performed with the CellML models > rather than the HDF5 data files. The CellML models containing the > various parametrizations of full models will contain a lot more useful > data to query. You can then search your model archive for simulation > descriptions (model instantiations) that meet certain criteria and can > then retrieve the corresponding simulation data from the HDF5 data > file. I'm currently not in favour of duplicating parameter values in > the HDF5 data groups...but not sure about this yet :)
Duplication of information in any form or shape should be prohibited in my view. That's a recipe for disaster at some point down the line. Alan _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
