Re: [galaxy-dev] Storing a dict as metadata

2011-08-26 Thread James Taylor
On Aug 26, 2011, at 7:23 PM, Duddy, John wrote: > I'm looking into these, and it seems that the spirit is to store a version of > the data that is converted, like a FASTQ -> BAM or some such use case, where > one file can be extracted from the other. It was originally built for that (hence the

Re: [galaxy-dev] Storing a dict as metadata

2011-08-26 Thread Duddy, John
or [mailto:ja...@jamestaylor.org] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 1:52 PM To: Duddy, John Cc: galaxy-dev Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] Storing a dict as metadata Not currently, but since a converted dataset is just a dataset, you could reuse all of the existing upload mechanism, and just add the conv

Re: [galaxy-dev] Storing a dict as metadata

2011-08-26 Thread James Taylor
Not currently, but since a converted dataset is just a dataset, you could reuse all of the existing upload mechanism, and just add the converted dataset connection between the two after the fact. On Aug 26, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Duddy, John wrote: > Is there a way to upload that converted datas

Re: [galaxy-dev] Storing a dict as metadata

2011-08-26 Thread Duddy, John
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 5:37 AM To: Duddy, John Cc: galaxy-dev Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] Storing a dict as metadata Hey John, are you sure you don't want to use a "converted dataset" rather than a metadata element for this. This is how we handle most types of secondary index

Re: [galaxy-dev] Storing a dict as metadata

2011-08-26 Thread James Taylor
Hey John, are you sure you don't want to use a "converted dataset" rather than a metadata element for this. This is how we handle most types of secondary indexes for visualization. If you do it this way, the converter that creates the offset index is just another tool (but registered in dataty

[galaxy-dev] Storing a dict as metadata

2011-08-25 Thread Duddy, John
I'd like to have a datatype with a dict as metadata. This dict() would store file offsets to enable seeking around to process different sections of the file. How do I add a dictionary data metadata element? John Duddy Sr. Staff Software Engineer Illumina, Inc. 9885 Towne Centre Drive San Diego