Hi, biodevelopers-admin at bioinformatics.org wrote on 04/22/2004 10:14:38 PM: > > I think that this development should be a community effort, not > centralised. Interesting aspect! However, a community effort will be difficult to realize, even if this would be a better solution compared to a centralized one (at least in the beginning). I guess, the normal way is more like Linus showed with the Linux development. Someone starts developing a piece of software that others find interesting, thus they start to participate to this project. > That is what I mean (I think). Having a well defined model for your source > data allows you to take what you need and build what you want. Then > someone else starts to take something of what you provide and so on. > Sooner or later a core standard will emerge. I hope that anyone who has > read this far can somehow see this vague point, because this is what > science is, the development of ideas and the formation of a consensus. > I agree, that's the way who science works and someone has to do the first step. Till now, several institutions/companies,... tried to do this step and there are several new and interesting approaches. So why not putting some of these approaches together when thinking of a new data model/environment? > > > 'new'/'better suited' model, you'll end up re-inventing a well-thought-out > > model. Having standardized, even peer-reviewed, data models promotes a > > better computing environment and makes it easier to make advances in > > science. For most of us, Science, not technology or programming, is the > > ultimate pursuit. > > I absolutely agree. It boggles my brain to think what we (me and my peers) > will be able to do scientifically in the next 50 years with the integrated > biological universe at our fingertips! Yep, I agree too! Is there someone on this list, who already works on the development of a new model/environment? > > > > -=Michel=- > > Cheers, > Dan. > Greetz, Thorsten > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Biodevelopers mailing list > > Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biodevelopers mailing list > Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers >