Thanks Arek I've given my talk and credited you in the presentation, would
be nice to see other information you might have later for the new version
but I was able to include a slide of the new features you mentioned and did
some screenshots of the new GUIs

-L

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Arek Kasprzyk <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
>
> On 14/04/10 4:00 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Arek,
> > Lots of goodies on BioMart 0.8. Could you elaborate more especially on
> the
> > new configuration tool please?
>
>
> All I can say right now is that will be doing what Meditor and Mbuilder do
> at the moment with a specific focus on the portal support rather than
> single
> dataset as it used to be. This is still work in progress
>
> a
>
>
>
> > Thank you,
> > Nelson
> >
> >>
> >> Hi Leandro,
> >> I'll try to dig up some more recent slides for you. Meanwhile you can
> have
> >> a
> >> first glimpse of what's coming. We have just released a website based on
> >> the
> >> first 0.8 candidate.
> >>
> >>
> >> http://dcc.icgc.org/
> >>
> >> The interface that you see there is the first one of the number of GUIs
> >> that
> >> we are developing for new BioMart. (Some of those will come from our
> >> collaborators from the EBI) Some of the upcoming features (in
> >> non-particular
> >> order are listed below)
> >>
> >> 1. Other GUI types, report pages and visualization tools
> >> 3. Parallel query processing for large datasets
> >> 4. Security
> >> 5. 'Virtual' marts.
> >> (mart-compatible, non materialized views on the source schema)
> >> 6. Multi-dataset joins
> >> 7. New configuration tool
> >>
> >> The new website is still very basic but We'll be adding more features
> soon
> >>
> >> a
> >>
> >>
> >> On 14/04/10 9:14 AM, "Leandro Hermida" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear OICR,
> >>>
> >>> When you get a chance and see this message if you could direct me to
> any
> >>> slides and related information you have on the upcoming release of
> >>> BioMart, I
> >>> am giving a workshop talk at my institute to put forward using BioMart
> >>> for the
> >>> data mining component of a large project we are doing and I would
> >>> particularly
> >>> like to know the differences between 0.7 and the upcoming version.
> >>> Intermine
> >>> is also being recommended as a competitor by someone else, I would
> >>> prefer
> >>> BioMart to be selected as I have much more experience with it and have
> >>> successfully used it in other projects!
> >>>
> >>> I've finished my slides describing the current 0.7 version and credited
> >>> Arek
> >>> (thank you I used some of your graphics from your 2007 talks)
> >>>
> >>> best,
> >>> Leandro
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Damian Smedley <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Leandro,
> >>>>
> >>>> The folk at OICR, Toronto who are doing the majority of the
> development
> >>>> will
> >>>> definitely have some nice presentation material and should be awake in
> >>>> a few
> >>>> hours! Give them a while and I know they will be happy to send you
> some
> >>>> powerpoints etc. I have some slides etc but their materials will be
> >>>> more up
> >>>> to
> >>>> date on the upcoming release.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best wishes
> >>>> Damian
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Leandro Hermida
> >>>> <[email protected]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks for the heads up on the new version, are there any slides that
> >>>>> anyone
> >>>>> at the EBI team might have which I can throw in at the end of my talk
> >>>>> showing
> >>>>> some screenshots of the new upcoming version?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> thanks,
> >>>>> Leandro
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Richard Holland
> >>>>> <[email protected]>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> Nothing significant has changed in the user interface since 2007 so
> >>>>>> all of
> >>>>>> Arek's material relating to it from that year is still up-to-date.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> However a brand new BioMart is due sometime soon which will
> >>>>>> completely
> >>>>>> change the user interface. I'm not sure when it's due out but it
> >>>>>> would be
> >>>>>> worth checking in order to make sure that your presentation doesn't
> >>>>>> have to
> >>>>>> be re-written/repeated unnecessarily. A demo was presented at an EBI
> >>>>>> web
> >>>>>> services workshop in February so it can't be far away.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> cheers,
> >>>>>> Richard
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 14 Apr 2010, at 10:34, Leandro Hermida wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Hi BioMart team,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I have been preparing a workshop talk to introduce our users to
> >>>>>>>> BioMart
> >>>>>>> and show how we can use for the data mining component of a large
> >>>>>>> project
> >>>>>>> we
> >>>>>>> are implementing.  I don't want to reinvent the wheel and was
> >>>>>>> wondering if
> >>>>>>> there are some more up-to-date talks/slides that I could
> incorporate
> >>>>>>> into
> >>>>>>> my presentation? I've looked in 
> >>>>>>> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~arek/talks/<http://www.ebi.ac.uk/%7Earek/talks/>
> >>>>>>> <http://www.ebi.ac.uk/%7Earek/talks/>  which has talks from 2007
> and
> >>>>>>> earlier.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> thanks for any help,
> >>>>>>>> Leandro
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Richard Holland, BSc MBCS
> >>>>>> Operations and Delivery Director, Eagle Genomics Ltd
> >>>>>> T: +44 (0)1223 654481 ext 3 | E: [email protected]
> >>>>>> http://www.eaglegenomics.com/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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