[seek-taxon] interaction between seek and cipres

[Beach, James H]

Mark --

SEEK-Taxon (part of the other NSF/BIO ITR award) is very interested in
the taxonomic concept/node database overlap between the two projects.
The taxon subgroup of SEEK would basically like to see if a common data
schema could be implemented for phylogenetic trees, gene trees and
traditional classifications.  The research and analysis applications
would be obviously different but the data are all related.  There are
some pretty clear overlaps in some types of research processing between
the two projects, say for example querying on phylogenetic concepts and
published taxonomic concepts simultaneously, to explore their
interrelationships, or perhaps the use of genetic bar codes from
sequenced museum specimens as labels or IDs for querying.  That kind of
BOL data will likely now start being stored or referenced in both CIPRes
and SEEK data systems.

Would like to talk about that sort of thing with you and your colleagues
wrt integration between the two ITRs.

Jim


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James H. Beach
Biodiversity Research Center
University of Kansas
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
T 785 864-4645, F 785 864-5335





-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Miller [mailto:mmiller at sdsc.edu] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 3:27 PM
To: Beach, James H
Subject: interaction between seek and cipres

Hi Jim,

I am contacting you as SDSC lead on the CIPRes project. 
I was informed by Bernard Moret, head of the CIPRes project
(www.phylo.org) that NSF would like to see more interaction between our
organization and the SEEK project. 

I have already been working with Ilkay Altintas for some time on
partnerships with the Kepler project, and have a postdoc coming soon to
work on that. However, it would be nice to explore other potential
regions of overlap. 

Perhaps we can speak on the phone sometime at your convenience.
If you want to do this, just suggest a couple of times, and I will find
one that works for me as well. 

Best regards, 

Mark



Mark A. Miller, PhD.
Principal Investigator
Science Research and Development
San Diego Supercomputer Center
La Jolla CA 92092-0505
Tel. 858-822-0866
Fax 858-822-3610