Re: [cellml-discussion] UnitsML

2011-09-28 Thread David Brooks
: Hi, Only had a quick read through but it looks good, perhaps a bit too comprehensive for CellML and FieldML. Hard to tell if it will become *the* standard for units though. Steve On 27 Sep 2011, at 01:04, David Brooks wrote: Hi, I've come across the Units Markup

[cellml-discussion] UnitsML

2011-09-26 Thread David Brooks
Hi, I've come across the Units Markup Language (UnitsML, http://unitsml.nist.gov/), which is a project of the National Institute of Standards and Technology for encoding scientific units of measure in XML. It is currently being standardised by OASIS (the Working Draft is at

Re: [cellml-discussion] ABI CellML Meeting Minutes, 21st April 2010

2010-04-23 Thread David Brooks
DSL = Domain Specific Language. An internal DSL is one used directly in your source code, as opposed to reading and parsing sources from an external file. See http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1403 for an example (esp. for BASIC fans...). A DSL for menu building that could be used to say

Re: [cellml-discussion] Announcement of OpenCell 0.7rc1

2010-01-28 Thread David Brooks
Yeah, great! All part of having a professional and world class system! Thanks, Dave On 29/01/10 8:02 AM, Dougal Cowan wrote: On 28/01/2010 12:00, David Brooks wrote: A small thing, but what about improving the resolution of the icon used for OpenCell? Compare OpenCell's icon

Re: [cellml-discussion] Announcement of OpenCell 0.7rc1

2010-01-27 Thread David Brooks
And ditto for the OS/X version -- it needs to be a .dmg Thanks, Dave On 28/01/10 8:10 AM, Michael Cooling wrote: ...similar minor issue with the Windows version, had to add '.exe' to the file (and it was called something like 'installer-binary'). Quoting Alan Garny

Re: [cellml-discussion] Announcement of OpenCell 0.7rc1

2010-01-27 Thread David Brooks
A small thing, but what about improving the resolution of the icon used for OpenCell? Compare OpenCell's icon with that of other applications in the attached screen image. Ta. On 28/01/10 11:43 AM, David Brooks wrote: And ditto for the OS/X version -- it needs to be a .dmg attachment

Re: [cellml-discussion] CellML leadership structures

2009-01-22 Thread David Brooks
On 23/1/09 11:38 AM, James Lawson wrote: Hi all, We're bouncing around some ideas about how we might structure the decision making process within the CellML community. Ideally, we want to make it as transparent as possible and have some kind of executive group that reports directly to the

Re: [cellml-discussion] Auto-generate HDF5 from CellML?

2008-11-12 Thread David Brooks
On 13/11/08 2:38 AM, Jon Olav Vik wrote: David Nickerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As a side note, I am envisioning that in the long term such simulation data would ideally be stored using FieldML (http://www.fieldml.org) which underneath is likely to provide several options for the high

Re: [cellml-discussion] Representing the next version of the CellML Specification

2007-11-06 Thread David Brooks
Hi Andrew, My vote is for DocBook - I used it a few years ago for a software manual without too many issues, and the tools have matured since then. Keep away from anything DSSSL based (including the DSSSL flavour of DocBook), otherwise we will create a dependency on needing a Lisp expert to

Re: [cellml-discussion] 'CAVEman' the future of medicine

2007-05-29 Thread David Brooks
Their home page is at http://www.visualgenomics.ca/index.php?option=com_frontpageItemid=1 Dave On 30/05/2007 11:53 a.m., James Lawson wrote: Hey folks, Thought you might be interested in this. I really don't know how far they've actually got but they're certainly making some pretty