[BBF Standards] Initial Draft Documents for PICA

[Ralph Santos]

Hi,

Pursuant to a discussion at the BBF Technical Standards Workshop on March 1 in San Francisco, I've put up some draft documents on a data model and language I'm calling PICA (for "Part Interaction and Composition Assertion").  It's not intended to be a complete standard proposal, and the documents are in very early draft form (not really appropriate to build anything off of them yet), but they do illustrate the main concepts behind the framework, namely establishing an abstract view of biological parts and providing annotations declaring part information based on generic vocabulary of internal features (using Sequence Ontology terms) and behaviors cited in terms of the molecular species that interact with and/or are produced by the part.

I've placed the documents here:

  http://openwetware.org/wiki/PICA_Framework_Draft_Proposal_Documents

I'll update them as I build out the rest of the proposal package.  I'd appreciate any comments/questions/criticisms/suggestions on any of the material that people would care to share with me.

Thanks,
---ralf