Project Introduction

Hello Hydra Community!

As suggested by Markus in a GitHub issue 
(https://github.com/lanthaler/HydraConsole/issues/26#issuecomment-313217684). 
I'm writing to introduce a project we're working on that includes Hydra 
as the framework for our API.  The project is Tripal 
(http://tripal.info/). Tripal is an open-source, freely available 
toolkit for construction of online biological databases.  Genomics is 
undergoing a massive increase in the quantity of data available across 
all species.  Often, researchers who generate this type of data need a 
way to publish them in a searchable online website for their research 
communities using common data standards.  The Tripal project is intended 
to decrease the barrier for wet-bench scientists to publish their data, 
and to provide a common framework for development of groups with more 
advanced IT folks.    With multiple genome projects now using Tripal 
from across the world we're working to make data in Tripal sites 
exchangeable in a federated manner via web services using controlled 
vocabularies.  Our approach has been to choose Hydra for this.  We are 
funded by several US National Science Foundation (NSF) award to make 
this happen.

We'd love to be a bit more integrated with the Hydra community, and hope 
there may be some interest in our project, and I'm happy to share 
further details for anyone interested.

Best,

Stephen Ficklin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Systems Genetics
Washington State University

Received on Monday, 21 August 2017 08:24:06 UTC