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From: Dave C. G. H. D. <gmo...@go...> - 2008-08-01 21:48:47
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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: ---- 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. ---- 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 -- Was this helpful? Let us know at http://gmod.org/Help_Desk_Feedback |