[BioC] [somehow-OT] Storing/quickly accessing "genome length" data.

[Vincent Carey]

Detailed statements of use cases (i.e., want to do this with this
persistent, publicly available resource...) and performance
metrics/data would be nice to have as well.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
<kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Michael Lawrence
> <lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
>> It will be open, as soon as we've started :) Basically want a more
>> efficient/convenient API on top of the ncdf4 package. Richard Bourgon has an
>> ExpressionSet class that holds any element in assayData that exposes a
>> "rectangular" API. It's working now for mmapable files via the ff package.
>> Just like DataFrame works for any vector-like object.  Pete Haverty has
>> extended ExpressionSet to hold a RangedData for fast interval-based
>> subsetting. Just an overview of the different directions that we want to
>> sort of merge together.
>
> I have been doing essentially the same at Pete for my work.  Would he
> be interested in starting a package purely with the intention of
> developing the backend (in case he - like me - is still working on the
> application, but is interested in having a robust backend)?  Of
> course, Richard's stuff sounds interesting as well.
>
> It seems silly to spend time developing this in parallel.
>
> Kasper
>
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