Re: Hierarchal vs Non-Hierarchal Interfaces to Biological Taxonomy

> jump onto the HOT! HOT! gene wagon.
> Go here: http://www.geneontology.org/
> and download the ontology flat files
> (or better yet the HOT! HOT! XML!).

Holy Jesus! It is the Mother of All Hierarchies!

> Spend a few months playing with all that network
> (as in edges and nodes, ie a graph) data and who knows?
> You might be able to contribute neo DB software to the project.

I am already thinking of renaming it to GO Dummy GO :)

> And they already have a mySQL file so when it comes time to
> compare your queries to SQL or similar, the data is already
> formatted for you. Have fun!

Thanks. Just for fun, I download the 10 MB text file that can viewed with NotePad. I would have thought it would be much larger. Looks as though I would have to write a custom parser to import the data into dbd from this or any of the other downloadable formats.

> Keith -- Fraud 6

You're still carrying the Badge that Cimode bestowed upon you? Received on Thu Dec 14 2006 - 22:41:24 CST