[BioPython] a common repository for test datasets/use cases for all Bio* projects

[Peter]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio
<dalloliogm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to make you a proposal.
> Every module/program written in bioinformatics needs to be tested
> before it can be used to produce results that can be published.
> ...
> So, the point is.. what if we create a common repository for all this
> kind of testing data, to be used in common with all the other Bio*
> projects?

You you made some other good points, and this is a good idea.  In
practice the licences are usually OK for use to "borrow" example input
files from each other (and this does happen), but a more organised
system to encourage interchange of examples would be good.

I think this sounds like an excellent topic for the (currently very
quiet) Open-Bio-l mailing list (Open Bioinformatics Cross Project dev
discussion, one of the OBF mailing lists, this should cover all the
Bio* project members interested).  See
http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo

Peter