[Treebase-devel] ABI proposal for phyloinformatics

[Karen C. <kar...@ne...>]

There has been some interest among various groups in an ABI proposal
for development of phyloinformatics resources. This email is an
attempt to connect those threads and move the process forward. The
conversations that have been happening up to this point are:

1. The Phyloinformatics Research Foundation (phylofoundation.org,
stewards of TreeBASE and ToLWeb) started a Google doc aimed at
TreeBASE
2. MIAPA developers started a wiki page
(https://www.nescent.org/sites/evoio/NSF_ABI_2011), recognizing the
need for coordination with TreeBASE and other resources
3. NESCent (Todd, Hilmar and myself), as the current TreeBASE host and
as a third party interested in coordinated development across
resources started a third document (now added to the already mentioned
Google doc)

If you are interested in this discussion and do not already have
access to the Google doc entitled TreeBASE_ABI.doc, let me know and I
can grant you access. Hilmar and I made some substantial edits earlier
this morning. I point you specifically to the section at the end
entitled "An attempt to re-think all of this". Briefly, we wanted to
encourage some radical thinking and explore the idea of developing a
PhyloCommons that incorporates both TreeBASE and ToLWeb into the
proposal (as the data repository and the data sharing / dissemination
/ synthesis platform, respectively).

The ABI deadline is July 7, so we have a short period of time to pull
this together. Here is a link to a Doodle poll for an initial
teleconference.

http://doodle.com/zf2tz7sftyk3naxy

During this meeting, we hope to come to agreement on the broad
direction of the grant, identify possible leaders of the various
components and create a plan for getting this pulled together in time
for the deadline. Please feel free to continue the conversation on the
Google doc between now and the teleconference. If there are others who
you think should be invited, feel free to do so. Not everyone who
participates in this first phase will end up being named on the grant,
but these resources require input from a much larger group.

Cheers,
Karen


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Karen Cranston
Training Coordinator and Informatics Project Manager
nescent.org
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