The CDAO development team met in Las Cruces, NM from July 30 to August 1. During the meeting, developers created a mapping between CDAO and MAO, and worked through the representation of a set of simplified cases of evolutionary transitions, such as a change from one nucleotide to another, or the deletion of a block of nucleotides.
The group also considered priorities for the fall: continuing to pursue funding (resubmission deadline in November); supporting a more public, open development process; setting up a portal to showcase our interop technology; and finding ways to train students so that they can be productive quickly. ... read more