Re: Action Items from call today

Hi Jim, Helen, et al,

If Limpopo has been used by multiple microarray data providers, it 
should be more robust and useful to the microarray use case.

-Kei

Helen Parkinson wrote:

> Jim
>
> Stanford are now using the limpopo parser as well, the cannonical one 
> has been replaced by this. Limpopo is used by at least 3 groups EBI, 
> SMD, and MeV and is tested, I'd go with this,
>
> thanks
>
> Helen
>
> Jim McCusker wrote:
>
>> Hi all, I have a quick bit of input about MAGE-TAB->RDF (which is 
>> something that I'm rather interested in).
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Helen Parkinson <parkinson@ebi.ac.uk 
>> <mailto:parkinson@ebi.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>     here are my action items from the call today
>>
>>     1. MAGE-TAB->RDF, Lena requested details.
>>
>>     Code here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/limpopo/
>>
>>     Java Parser for MAGE-TAB developed by EBI, used by several groups.
>>     Contact Tony Burdett tburdett@ebi.ac.uk
>>     <mailto:tburdett@ebi.ac.uk> for details. Tony estimates for a
>>     simple RDF dump a few days work. Lena if you are interested in
>>     working on this java code please contact Tony as he's already
>>     designed  with rdf export in mind
>>
>>
>> I have been experimenting with 
>> ftp://smd-ftp.stanford.edu/smd/transfers/magetab/, which is the 
>> "canonical" magetab parser, and includes an object model. I have been 
>> attempting to annotate the data model with Sesame Elmo annotations to 
>> produce a useful RDF graph from the parsed object graph. I have only 
>> made some progress on this, as the its use of custom collection 
>> subclasses confuses the Elmo mapping code.
>>
>> If Limpopo is separate from the parser that I'm working on, and has 
>> an easier-to-work-with object model, I can possibly make some good 
>> progress on this in a short period of time. Glancing at the code from 
>> Limpopo, the object model seems very different, and can possibly be 
>> used by Elmo to generate RDF.
>>
>> If I use this route, is this something that would be interesting to 
>> the group?
>>
>> Jim
>> -- 
>> Jim McCusker
>> Programmer Analyst
>> Krauthammer Lab, Pathology Informatics
>> Yale School of Medicine
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>> http://krauthammerlab.med.yale.edu
>>
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>

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