Jeff Hammerbacher
Jeff Hammerbacher
Another crazy thought is moving to a cards-based UI for variants, given the amount of metadata attached to each of them.
I'd like to see us move away from files as an entity for analysis. I'd rather see metadata attached to entities like contigs, alignments, genotypes, variants or collections thereof. Similarly,...
For non-critical constraints, I've seen this done with an integrity check script that is run periodically by a cron job. In other words be optimistic about it working and just...
Related: #494
Oh boy, delegation. I don't want to go too crazy with the account system yet so let's try to build utility around user accounts before building administrator accounts?
:fearful: no file names please.
I'd rather rename "Add BAM" to "Add reads" and "Add run" to "Add variants" or something similar. We should talk about the entities, not the file formats.
@jaclynperrone file formats are artifacts of implementation and hide the scientific entity under consideration. Bioinformatics (and science in general) is broken because it thinks in terms of files, not entities....
Yeah we're going to have to break a few bad habits. You're going to be asked for faster horses (i.e. better file format handling), we're going to try to push...
Sure, I believe that longtime users of standard bioinformatics tools have really bad habits. I don't think we should design our product to reinforce those bad habits though.