[BioC] Re: offer from I Neuhaus to create a BMS response; keep in core, please

[Todd Richmond]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bioconductor-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:bioconductor-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Rafael A.
> Irizarry
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 8:14 AM
> To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
>
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Robert Gentleman wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
> > Vis a vis the phone call, it was about 1 hour long, it was slightly
> > focussed on marketing hype on their side and some substantial,
> > although peculiar concerns came out. One of the major concerns that
> > they have is that if they make their formats public then anyone can
> > create a "CEL" file of the right format and make it look very much
> > like one that they generated. They believe that this would lead to
> > substantial confusion.

That doesn't make a lot of sense. If they are concerned about the
authenticity of "CEL" files can't they just use a digital signature, or some
sort of checksum scheme for verification? I can't imagine that a binary
format is going to make life easier for anyone. If they are concerned about
size, there are standard compression libraries that you can use to
compress/uncompress your data files on-the-fly as you save/load.

Todd

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