[BBF Standards] BioHackathon

[Jason Morrison]

Hey all,

Not sure what the overlap in interest is, but there's apparently a
BioHackathon going on next week, http://hackathon.dbcls.jp/ with some
interesting development going on.  It looks like it focuses on OpenBio*
(BioPerl, BioPython, BioJava, BioRuby, [etc?]) development, as well as
BioMOBY development:

What is MOBY?
> The MOBY system for interoperability between biological data hosts and
> analytical services
>
> The MOBY-S system defines an ontology-based messaging standard through
> which a client will be able to automatically discover and interact with
> task-appropriate biological data and analytical service providers, without
> requiring manual manipulation of data formats as data flows from one
> provider to the next.
>

The takeaway from this could be anything, ranging from a very interested
individual trying to coordinate some remote hacking with Skype or IRC (so
long as the cut Pacific data lines don't interfere ;), to an interested
onlooker seeking to absorb some lessons learned and look for opportunities
to take advantage of existing or emerging standards for data stores,
store/query structure, and UI/APIs.

Thoughts?
Jason

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Jason Morrison
jason.p.morrison at gmail.com
http://jayunit.net
(585) 216-5657
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