From: Junmin L. <ju...@pc...> - 2007-02-05 20:45:11
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Hi, Tim I am particularly interested in your following comments. > I was under the impression that automated pipeline systems would be using > MAGEv2-ML; I'm very concerned that we're mixing up our use cases here. > MAGE-TAB is not supposed to replace MAGEv2-ML, but complement it. It's a > simple tabular format that bench scientists can use (in theory), *not* a > wholesale replacement for the object modelling approach. I worry greatly > that this has been forgotten in the rush to get this specification > finished. I agree with you that MAGE-Tab is not to replace MAGE-ML, but a simple way. I think we should stride to make it "SIMPLE" if possible. In terms of data submission, actually in the past my lab was using webforms to annotate the studies and then export MAGE-MLs from DB. Now we have MAGE-Tab, my plan is to make the MAGE-Tab as both data loading tool and data exporting tool. So the same MAGE-Tab and its associated data can be loaded into RAD and also loaded into AE, I think this is feasible. Also like "MVC", I think MAGE-Tab is like presentation view on the underlining model, even we have MAGE-ML v2, or v3, v4, the mapping from tab to model are changed, but the MAGE-Tab may not be changed. I could be wrong on this. Thanks, ---junmin |