[BBF Standards] functional composition of BioBrick parts?

[Josh Perfetto]

Yes, I think ease of processing and the representational power of the format
is more important nowadays than human readability.  We need standard
representations that can be adopted by software developers to build powerful
processing systems for BioBricks.  We can expect such software to present a
more human-usable interface to manipulate the BioBricks than a file format
ever could.

I'm also really interested to see Deepak's initial formats, this could be a
great starting place.

-Josh

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[mailto:standards-bounces at biobricks.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Bishop
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:57 PM
To: standards at biobricks.org
Subject: Re: [BBF Standards] functional composition of BioBrick parts?

On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Deepak Chandran wrote:
>     I have been doing some work in constructing simple file formats
> for representing parts as well as interfacing between them
> (connecting them). Simulating a model is kept as an objective when
> designing the file. The file format is intended to be human readable
> and concise, so that a user would not be intimidated to adopt it. Of
> course, this format is still in the 'experimenting' stage, but if
> anyone is interested, feel free to contact me.

Yes, please share what you have created. Also, why have you decided to 
go with human readability over the possible powers of XML and automated 
database? Human readability can be done via interpretation, but at the 
increased cost of more complicated software tool design processes.

- Bryan
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