[Biojava-dev] 23andMe Personal Genome API

Andreas Prlic andreas at sdsc.edu
Wed Oct 24 03:39:32 UTC 2012


I think it would be great to have that.... Assuming you would take
over the leadership of this module.

On a sidenote,  BioJava is LGPL v 2 and not 3. If this is your code,
that should not be a prob...

Andreas



On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There isn't much in biojava3 dealing with variation data; that has
> been more the domain of other projects such as
>
> Picard  (Apache v2, MIT licenses)
> http://picard.sourceforge.net/
>
> GATK (troublesome license)
> http://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/
>
> etc.
>
>
> I wrote a client library for the 23andMe Personal Genome API (not
> affiliated, just curious)
>
> https://api.23andme.com/docs/reference/
>
> hosted here temporarily
>
> https://github.com/heuermh/personal-genome-client  (LGPL version 3 or later)
>
> and was wondering if it would make sense to contribute this to
> biojava3.  There isn't a very rich data model of variation in the
> client classes and we don't have any in biojava3 either.  I am also
> working on this project
>
> https://code.google.com/p/genotype-list/
>
> which has a slightly better model, but is really only applicable for
> traditional allele nomenclature-based genotypes (e.g. HLA, KIR).
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
>    michael
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