[Gmod-ware-users] Modware Update

[Dave C. G. H. D. <gmo...@go...>]

Hello all,

The status of Modware came up at the July 2008 GMOD meeting (see
http://gmod.org/July_2008_GMOD_Meeting).  I've since traded e-mails
with Eric Just at Northwestern, and I thought I would pass on the
details to the list.

In general, only a few things have changed since Eric's response to
Kevin Greer's post (on the same topic) in February.  First, Eric has a
new position at Northwestern, but he still works part-time for
DictyBase.  There are also two new programmers at DictyBase,
Siddhartha Basu and Yulia Bushmanova.

>From Eric:
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We were hoping to get funding for Modware, and we applied for a grant
through the (now apparently defunct) NSF Biological Databases an
Informatics program.  We were very disappointed that it took them
nearly a year to tell us that we did not get funding for the project.
We were planning on having a Modware full time programmer, but because
of the lack of funding, we could not dedicate this resource.
Siddhartha has shown great interest in continuing the project, and
has, in fact added some functionality to it on the CVS HEAD.  Our
immediate plans are to build a new version on top of GMOD 1.0 and
create a new release in the near future.
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They also have long term plans to secure specific funding for Modware.

The new GMOD 1.0-based release will be announced here and on the GMOD
web site when it comes out.  Also, keep your eyes open for an upcoming
Chado API page on the web site.  It will describe all known Chado API
packages.  (This was suggested at the July GMOD Meeting.)

If you have any questions, please post them to this list.

Thanks,

Dave Clements
GMOD Help Desk
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