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

2011-08-26 Thread Duddy, John
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 indexes for visualization. If you do it this way

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