On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Daniel Blankenberg <dan@bx.psu.edu> wrote:
Hi Peter,
I managed to get the microbial data compressed and it is available along with the .loc file here http://www.bx.psu.edu/~dan/microbes/test_only/all/.
Great - can you keep that online till mid Jan? I'll try to download it in early Jan... if you could extract a species or two on their own it would be less of a download (and I'd be tempted to take a peak from home).
The mention of using Libraries instead of a tool was primarily due to the static content of what is being made available by the tool. Currently the tool will create a new file on disk each time a user requests a dataset, with libraries each user would have a pointer to the same file on disk. I had been thinking of arranging the libraries similar to how they are in the tool, but perhaps with additional sub-categories; although as the number of genomes (greatly) increases I'm not entirely certain how the interface would scale. Maybe some UI enhancements to the libraries could make it more manageable. Libraries also have the added benefit of allowing some versioning of datasets.
There does seem to be some interest in this tool/data, so after the new year I will try to find some time take another pass through it. It appears that you've looked through it quite a bit, so I'll definitely be using your recent efforts/notes to help with this (if you haven't gotten it all fixed and working by then;) ).
Well, I'm afraid I won't be doing any more on this until the new year, but then I'll be happy to help test/guide/give feedback on any updates. Thank you, and Happy Christmas & New Year, Peter