BIOXHIT/CCP4: Meeting Summary

Meeting Minutes

1. Review the outcome from CCP4 developer meeting
   • WY reported feedback she got after developer meeting:
   • ARP/wARP developer Serge Cohen is interested in using project tracking database. He requests to store Sub jobs in database. In dbviewer, it would be nice to have options to display(expand) or undisplay(shrink) the subjobs. He also requests Java client API.
   • Ronan Keegan has a first attempt to integrate dbhandler into MrBUMP and use dbviewer to review the job history. It works but find some bugs, for example, when dbviewer refresh itself too frequent, the canvas becomes green. He also suggests that it would be nice if dbviewer can display output scores. He also requests the functionality of view the files from job, rerun the jobs or start new job from a job.
   • Charles request to show notebook entry in dbviewer and able to view the notebook from dbviewer.
   • PJB talked about feedback from his note in the meeting
     • It is suggested that to be able to view which job generate files. This could be another view which show a single job along with the associated input and output files. We could write a separate application for this view and run parallel with current graph view.
     • Kevin suggested to replace job list in CCP4i with graph view
     • Randy questioned what would happen if user change the files.
   • Review the knowledge base. The input of knowledge base would be two ways: one way is to provide interface for user to input data; the other way is when running program, the program put data into database. PJB emphasises that knowledge base should start to store very little data at the beginning. Knowledge base is in low priority at this stage. We should make some fake schema to test the mechanism of SQLite backend.
   • The immediate plans are:
     • port code to Windows platform.
     • integrate dbhandler to CCP4.
     • extend tracking database.
     • address the issue of CCP4 create an empty project at the start.
     • PJB talked about to set preference in dbviewer such as color scheme, node shape. For color blind users, we should provide other ways to indicate the status of jobs.
     • WY mentioned that somebody request deposition functionality. PJB said this should be another module to look at, but not inside dbviewer. This is low prority at this stage.

Action Items

1. WY: put the development of Java API to bugzilla.
2. WY: put the bug of dbviewer can't cope when update too quickly into bugzilla.
3. PJB: point out the ccp4i code which deals with view files from job and rerun job to WY.
4. WY: look at dependance of dbviewer. put all dependance package into ftp site.
5. WY: talk to Ronan to setup MrBUMP in WY's computer.
6. WY: fix the outstanding bugs in bugzilla.

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