David Steinberg
David Steinberg
Tag numbers are how protocol buffers allows field names to be reused. You don't have to worry about your field being named `name` as a `string` today and an `int`...
The access patterns for the reads API would be improved by adding a read groups endpoint (#650). Currently the readgroupset endpoint returns a repeated list of readgroups matching the search...
Goes with https://github.com/ga4gh/ga4gh-schemas/pull/706
The schema diagram is a welcome addition thanks @malisas. There are some features that would make it much more useful. This issue is meant to discuss how to present the...
The usage of the word "metadata" in the API is a loaded one, and perhaps we can improve the understandability of the protocol by renaming the Metadata Service to the...
via @sarahhunt > Attaching disease to BioSample seems odd - many sequenced samples are not associated with a disease; if they were it would be more normal to flag this...
The description for `Experiment` says it's an experimental preparation of a sample. This relationship could be more explicit if this is what the Experiment record is meant to capture by...
The relationship between variant sets and read group sets should be explicit. The question of: "which BAM was used for which callset"? is currently answered implicitly through the variant set...
Since the HTTP annotations are included as protobuf options, it is possible to use these data programmatically in the documentation. The scripts used during the sphinx build process are [here](https://github.com/ga4gh/schemas/tree/master/tools/sphinx).
In https://github.com/ga4gh/schemas/issues/621 @mcourtot mentions > With respect to the ontology source identification. At the moment, there is: > Ontology source name - the name of ontology from which the term...