"
Team:Berkeley Software/BingNotebook/Notes
From 2009.igem.org
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
[[Image:DB_manager_notes1.png|center|frame|Proposed new Clotho infrastructure]] | [[Image:DB_manager_notes1.png|center|frame|Proposed new Clotho infrastructure]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | ---- | ||
| + | [[Team:Berkeley_Software/Notebook|Back to Notebooks]] | ||
Revision as of 17:57, 3 June 2009
Week One
Sixpi 18:34, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
iGEM starts again for me! Last year I was on the Berkeley wetlab team - this year, I'll be working on the software tools team. This week, we're getting a bunch of tutorials from Doug to get everyone caught up with where Clotho is now, and also thinking about which of the subproject(s) we want to talk about. I will probably be working on database support, and I would like to help with the robot automation/assembly algorithm project. I've put up a short bio of myself here.
Sixpi 15:55, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
I talked with Doug yesterday about how the DB manager should work for the new Clotho. The new DB manager won't be a rewrite of what I have now - what I have now should probably be renamed the DB browser. The new DB manager will be the default gateway for information to travel in and out of Clotho, so we want it to be as flexible and powerful, and yet as easy to use as possible. Out of our discussion, we decided that a binding file of some sort was still needed, and that we needed some list of internal types/keywords that all Clotho tools should understand, and a binding file to translate between external types and internal types. Once data passes through the binding manager, another piece of code will be responsible for checking the external data model to see if it is compatible enough with the Clotho data model to let the tools do their work. We will need to consider some things about how different the topologies of the external and internal data models are, and how different the models can be before the tools will not be able to traverse the external data intelligently.
