Re: [basedb-devel] Open Source utils for sharing array results

2007-12-11 Thread McMurry, Andrew J.
> I'd be interested in hearing everyone's views about the practicality of > taking this approach, and any offers of help to actually do it :-) Based on the requirements previously described, I will be building that with at least one other (already hired/trained/fulltime) engineer. We are funded

Re: [basedb-devel] Open Source utils for sharing array results

2007-12-11 Thread Tony Travis
Kjell Petersen wrote: > Hi all, > > We are following the development of a Web Service interface of BASE2 > with great interest in Bergen, Norway. We will later integrate our BASE2 > installation with a larger set of resources, with the Web Service > interface as the most natural choice of inter

Re: [basedb-devel] Open Source utils for sharing array results

2007-12-11 Thread Tony Travis
Bob MacCallum wrote: > Hi all, > > Following this with interest as we are putting together some Java tools to do > on-the-fly analysis for web display on data stored in BASE2, through an API we > have built on top of the BASE2 API. Perhaps we should have invested the time > in plugin development

Re: [basedb-devel] Open Source utils for sharing array results

2007-12-11 Thread McMurry, Andrew J.
Thanks bob! >> "As someone who loads data from several labs and institutes around the >> world, I really doubt you can just point your software at a bunch of >> directories full of raw data files and expect to have all the data loaded in >> a meaningful way. It does unfortunately take some cura

Re: [basedb-devel] Open Source utils for sharing array results

2007-12-11 Thread Bob MacCallum
Hi all, Following this with interest as we are putting together some Java tools to do on-the-fly analysis for web display on data stored in BASE2, through an API we have built on top of the BASE2 API. Perhaps we should have invested the time in plugin development instead, but that's another deba

Re: [basedb-devel] Open Source utils for sharing array results

2007-12-11 Thread McMurry, Andrew J.
Thank you Nick, Tony: To be clear, there are three distinct use cases: (1) UI for complete LIMS management system (2) API for reading existing microarray results and loading them into a DB (3) Querying that database using webservices such as those supported by BioMoby I am primarily interested i

Re: [basedb-devel] Open Source utils for sharing array results

2007-12-11 Thread Kjell Petersen
Hi all, We are following the development of a Web Service interface of BASE2 with great interest in Bergen, Norway. We will later integrate our BASE2 installation with a larger set of resources, with the Web Service interface as the most natural choice of intersection since a Service Oriented

Re: [basedb-devel] Open Source utils for sharing array results

2007-12-11 Thread McMurry, Andrew J.
Thanks! I'll check it out! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tony Travis Sent: Tue 12/11/2007 4:53 AM To: BASE dev Cc: Ted Liefeld Subject:Re: [basedb-devel] Open Source utils for sharing array results McMurry, Andrew J. wrote: > Greetings: > I'm

Re: [basedb-devel] Open Source utils for sharing array results

2007-12-11 Thread Tony Travis
Nicklas Nordborg wrote: > [...] > I am not sure I understand what you mean. You say you want to use BASE 2 > to find the results... but then that you don't need the full-blown BASE > 2. Can you clarify? BASE 2 stores it's data in a database already... Do > you want to copy this data into a secon

Re: [basedb-devel] Open Source utils for sharing array results

2007-12-11 Thread Tony Travis
McMurry, Andrew J. wrote: > Greetings: > I'm tasked with creating extractor APIs for array results > (CGH/Expression/SNP) in a MIAME compliant format (likely MINIML). I > figure it is better to use open source tools available rather than build > from scratch. All the work we do is open source.