[Biodevelopers] developmental code for download

[Mike Marchywka]

> Hi, Mike, I cannot figure out what this page is about.
>
> There are a lot of abbreviations, some of which I recognize and others
> of which I don't. What's the general area of application of your code?
>

I'll try to post back here when/if  I get the site cleaned up. 
This started out as a test page on which I put a bunch of stuff
( like setting up a yard sale I guess, doesn't quite get the attention to detail
of a retail oulet, LOL) that I thought may be of interest and that I don't
anticipate fully developing. Right now, there is the string processing stuff ( gene annotation ),
the molecule viewer ( glut program), and the SEC script. 

Ig I had to guess, you are lost on the SEC stuff- as explained on the doc page and links,
this is the Securities and Exchange Commission. It points to 
the ad hoc mixture of stuff on the site but it does  illustrate a problem with
web sites that offer complicated data through a web interface ONLY
with no API for machine access. 

> What is the license under which you're releasing this code?

I'm just making the files available, as far as I am concerned ( to the extent that
there is no intellectual property belonging to others ) you can do whatever you
want with it. Credit would be appreciated and I think I have provided links to everyone
else's code I have downloaded. 

>
> How do I tell what's broken and what's not?

I'll try to add documentation when I get a chance. Briefly, the molecule viewer "works"
in that I can view many pdb files, outline cavities with fictious potential curves, and use
it in realtime data display mode to view and interact with 3d data models ( the example
shows a statistical simulation as one source of such data).  However, I wouldn't trust
any results at this point. Essentially, I'm not claiming any of it does anything so I can't claim
any of it works. 

>
> Your e-mail is a reply to a biostatistics course e-mail but it doesn't
> seem connected to that. Am I missing something?

See comment above- I only posted this link because the original post hit on somthing I needed. 
I specifically need formulae for non-parametric statistical tests on right-censored survival curves. 
I'm working on things like separating a mixture of points
( say drug+placebo ) using various wavelet approaches and using success/failure to 
make some guesses about a real drug effect ( if you can reliably separate them, presumably
this means that there is a real drug effect. I call this "triple blind" as you would think about
this with a double-blind clinical trial and add the computer to the list of blinded participants ). 


>
> confusedly yours,

That makes two of us, thanks for the interest.



> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:54:06 -0700
> From: titus at caltech.edu
> To: biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org
> Subject: Re: [Biodevelopers] developmental code for download
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:24:29AM -0400, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> ->
> -> Hi,
> -> I've got a bunch of partially completed code that I'm making available if anyone wants
> -> to sort through it. It includes some statistics ( some of which works, some of which doesn't)
> -> and other features as detailed here:
> ->
> -> http://www.spottext.com/marchywka/distroform.cfm?src=biodevel
>
> Hi, Mike, I cannot figure out what this page is about.
>
> There are a lot of abbreviations, some of which I recognize and others
> of which I don't. What's the general area of application of your code?
>
> What is the license under which you're releasing this code?
>
> How do I tell what's broken and what's not?
>
> Your e-mail is a reply to a biostatistics course e-mail but it doesn't
> seem connected to that. Am I missing something?
>
> confusedly yours,
> --titus
>
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