[Miase-discuss] miase file content - manifest?

[Richard A. <ra...@st...>]

Hello,
  I'm hoping to be able to generate and read .miase files in the near  
future using the java library in sourceforge. Since I'm also  
developing a client tool I was thinking it would be nice to be able to  
view a summary of the contents of the .miase archive  without having  
to parse all the files - what does anyone think of a manifest to be  
included in the archive?

   It could contain:

1. A short decription of the sedml file (e.g., in the example .sedml  
file based on biomodel12 there is a top-level notes annotation called  
'from periodicity to chaos'. Actually couldn't the SedML root object  
have a basic name/ description rather than relying on a note?

2. The names of any model files included e.g., for sbml models, it  
could be the string resulting from Model.getName().

3. Some other optional info e.g., date generated etc



If we agreed that the manifest was the 'first' file in the archive  
then tools wouldn't even have to unzip all the files to find it.

Other than that, the format Frank proposed seems quite effective -  
Frank I hope to be able to test out some .miase files generated by the  
java library on your website soon (at least before the Biomodels  
meeting).


Thanks
  Richard









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