From: Catherine B. <ba...@ge...> - 2007-02-05 21:08:49
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Hi Tim and others, I'm getting progressively more worried. Our goal is not to make MAGE- TAB simple "if possible." It is to make it simple, period. While it might be nice to use MAGE-TAB in an automated fashion to schlep data between software applications, the absolutely most important user is a bench biologist, end of story. Please, please, please avoid the temptation to start tacking more and more complex data concepts and structures on what absolutely needs to be a very simple set of spreadsheets that an undergrad or tech can use to annotate a reasonably complex set of microarray data in less than an afternoon. Cathy On Feb 5, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Junmin Liu wrote: > 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 > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your > job easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Mged-mage mailing list > Mge...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mged-mage |