Re: Confirm talk on 14th?

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 11:02 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:

> We *will* have internet. If Oakland is a real problem, then you could do
> next month. The only real problem is that I don't have a fall-back
> topic, unless people want to hear my talk from OSCON (large databases).

Okay, then I'll be happy to do the dog and pony show on 9/14 at Casa
Donde. I'll bring a laptop. I can probably swing a projector if needed
-- please let me know.

Unison: Integrated Proteomic Predictions for Feature-Based Mining and
Sequence Analysis

I'll talk about a database I've put together over the last 2+ years to
help us identify and reject drug targets. I will expect that most folks
aren't aware of the drug development process, so I'll start there and
show how Unison fits it. I'll discuss some of the Unison internals,
reasons I chose PostgreSQL, some solutions to a few of the non-obvious
problems, and difficulties I've encountered. Of course, there will be a
demo.

Genentech recently gave me permission to Open Source the schema, API &
tools, perl CGI web interface, and all of the non-proprietary data. Give
it a spin at http://unison-db.org/ .

-Reece

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Reece Hart, http://harts.net/reece/, GPG:0x25EC91A0