[seek-taxon] interaction between seek and cipres

[Mark Miller]

Hi Jim,

That sounds great, who should I talk to in terms of Data Models etc?
Would it be best to have the SEEK project discuss this internally before we
do any direct contacts?

Thanks

Mark 

-----Original Message-----
From: Beach, James H [mailto:beach at ku.edu] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 2:08 PM
To: Mark Miller
Cc: seek-taxon at ecoinformatics.org
Subject: RE: interaction between seek and cipres

 
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
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-----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