Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Dev2022-1-27

Timestamp:

Jan 27, 2022, 3:22:55 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

Comment:

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Dev2022-1-27

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 = Discussion =
 
+* Talk on ChimeraX web services implementation by Zach
+  - Zach explained new REST web services method for replacing SOAP/Opal.
+  - Discussed how input parameters for job are passed.
+  - Discussed how job return values are packaged (e.g. multiple files).
+  - Discussed how job progress reports might work.
+  - Scooter would like existing ChimeraX web services using this long before ChimeraX 1.4 release (May 2022?)
+  - BLAST is using it.
+  - Next is Modeller, Zach will get it done by 2 weeks from now and present.
+  - Then multiple sequence alignment (clustal) added using Opal by Eric 2 weeks ago.
+  - Eric will try to implement REST seq alignment after Zach converts Modeller.
+  - Another service to convert is AlphaFold BLAT search.
+  - And a more complex case to try later is AlphaFold prediction on Wynton.
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+* Qt 6 ChimeraX on download page
+  - Greg hopes to havel Qt 6 tech preview on download page tomorrow.
+  - Tom has been using it 4 weeks without problems.
+  - Tom wants it in circulation to see if many Qt 5 crashes are fixed, or workarounds needed.
+  - Greg notes new Fedora Linux versions work with Qt 6 but not Qt 5.
+  - Greg has setup tech preview support on download page for future uses.
+    * Runs script at start of build to patch files or do other setup.
+    * Flag indicates whether to add it to download page.
+    * Can edit download page to explain what is new in a particular tech preview.
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+* Redesign of client Task / Job classes
+  - Zach thinking Tasks should inherit from dict.
+  - Discussion of drawbacks of inheriting from dict
+    * Allows too much access to dict methods.
+    * Can confuse session saving seeing an instance as a basic type.
 
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