[Dynamite] July (attn Ewan)

[Ian Holmes]

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Ewan Birney wrote:

> > I heard mention that you cancelled all your trips in early July because of
> > Ensembl deadlines. Does this mean that you won't be coming out to
> > Pasadena. (I do hope it doesn't mean that; I think it's important that we
> > have facetime for Telegraph -- I realise we will have some time next month
> > when I am over but it would be good to have a day in July as well)
> 
> Nope. Passendena makes it as post 15th July ;)

Cool ;)

> > I still think we are on target for an ISMB poster, in fact I have
> > committed to doing this with Gerry.
> > 
> > In June we can discuss what exactly will be needed for this. I hope to
> > minimise the coding required, while maximising the spectacular-ness of our
> > results. always the best way..
> 
> I like the way you are talking.
> 
> lets get all buzz words in there. I am looking for CORBA, XML, UML, Perl,
> Python, Java, ASP, Co-location and open-source.

wow :)
There are at least three in there I don't even know the meaning of.
UML? ASP? Co-location?

I'm not sure how CORBA / Python / Java fit in, but I'm sure there is room
for them. ;)

Re XML: in some ways I think our own language-like file format might be
better; but we should probably be able to dump XML as well, if only for
buzzword value. BTW Ewan did you know we now have Brad working at the
BDGP? quite a result.

> any others?

Bioperl, wiki, HMMs...

I am also keen on introducing a new buzzword of our own ;)
"object functional"

The idea is it's analogous to "object relational" (which is an object
model that mirrors a relational database). "Object functional" is an
object model that mirrors the properties of a mathematical function -- in
our case, a likelihood function: Pr { sequence(s) | model, params }

i may end up submitting something about this to BOSC.. 

ian