Re: [SED-ML-discuss] SED-ML reports

[Sven S. <sve...@bi...>]

Hi Frank,

It is possible that "report" is a Copasi term that crept in during the  
initial discussion in Okinawa. In Copasi "Report" means an output to a  
textfile. I guess what SED-ML means is that a report is a text file  
with a table of numbers arranged in columns (which would be a table  
report in copasi).
Eventually it should be possible to define more complex output data  
structures, but for the first release I think it would be OK to say  
that a report is a (2-dimensional) table of numbers, and leave the  
implementation to the software tools. It could be recommended that at  
least comma or tab separated text files should be supported but I  
could also imagine a tool that displays the numbers in a spreadsheet- 
like way on the screen and writes excel files.

Sven

Am 11.05.2010 um 00:18 schrieb Frank T. Bergmann:

> Hello all,
>
> I've had a question today that was: What does SED-ML mean by  
> 'reports' ??
>
> And honestly I was not quite sure how to answer it ... the current  
> SED-ML
> specification says:
>
> "The Report class defines an output type that returns the simulation  
> result
> in actual numbers.
> The particular columns of the report table are defined by creating a  
> DataSet
> for each column."
>
> That might not be enough of a specification. What people probably  
> expect is
> to obtain results in form of CSV or SBRML, or is that a tool issue?
> What do we expect tools to generate when we ask them for a report?
>
> As far as I interpret it ... we don't say anything about  
> serialization of
> the report ... thus the most likely interpretation is that the tool  
> in some
> form presents the table with the results to the user, who then  
> chooses a
> serialization format for the data in the table?
>
> Cheers
> Frank
>
>
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Dr. Sven Sahle
Abteilung Modellierung biologischer Prozesse
Universität Heidelberg, BIOQUANT/Zoologie