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Opentree browsing and curation web site. For overarching or cross-repo concerns, please see the 'germinator' repo.
http://tree.opentreeoflife.org/
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Convert OTU-mapping UI from regex to "editing by example" #126

Open jimallman opened 11 years ago

jimallman commented 11 years ago

If curators find the regex system too fussy, look into this approach:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4476

opentreeapi commented 9 years ago

NOTE: This was submitted by @jimallman, while logged in as a bot user. D'oh!

More papers and "programming by example" tools here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9432949 http://www.transformy.io/

mtholder commented 9 years ago

whoa. jim is the api. I always expected as much.

jimallman commented 9 years ago

Here's yet another regex-by-example tool, this one using a genetic-programming approach to find a solution. The source code for the underlying engine is licensed as GPL3.