[Chinook] chinook novice asks: p2p for bioinformatics data (rather than services)?

[Tony Travis]

Paul Shannon wrote:
> The chinook list seems like a plausible place for me to ask this question; forgive me
> if I misjudge.
> 
> Does anyone know of projects which share bioinformatics data using p2p?  
> 
> For example, I might be looking for (or wishing to provide)
> 
>    1) microarray data from blood-stage plasmodium falciparum
>    2) transmembrane domains in mouse proteins
>    3) curated protein-protein networks related to macrophage activation in human
> 
> We now track a number of data-providing websites, gather gossip from
> collaborators, download data, try to make sense of it in context, and
> parse it into our data analysis programs.  We are prone to miss
> relevant data entirely; we miss important updates; we don't have
> an easy way to distribute our own public data to others.
> 
> Perhaps 'data p2p' might be an answer, using standard formats when
> they are available; self-describing data would be ideal.  Others in
> the bioinformatics community have surely thought about this.  Can
> anyone fill me in?

Hello, Paul.

We have a p2p datasharing project at an early stage of development:

	http://nbx1.rri.sari.ac.uk

This work is funded by NuGO (European Nutritional Genomics 
Organisation), and we are looking at Chinook as one of the components. 
The main project is to adapt Lund University's base2 LIMS for p2p 
sharing of microarray data:

	http://base.thep.lu.se/

I'd be interested to hear from other people doing something similar.

Best wishes,

	Tony.
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