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bio4j / bio4j-titan

Titan-specific bio4j implementation
https://github.com/bio4j/bio4j
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Support for Titan 1.x and TinkerPop 3.1.x #72

Open dylanht opened 8 years ago

dylanht commented 8 years ago

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your efforts in developing this resource - it is a very sound concept. I have been wondering why after checking back here every so often I have not yet seen any immediately obvious indication of "upgrade" plans to Titan 1.0 and the TinkerPop 3.1.x line, which have a significant number of new and improved features and integration points - am I missing something or is it just a really big job with limited benefit?

Cheers, Dylan

laughedelic commented 8 years ago

Hi @dylanht!

I guess, updating the code isn't very hard, but importing the whole thing (because Titan 1.0 is not storage-compatible with 0.5) is quite a big effort at the moment, because it's a manual process and takes a lot of time.

And about getting TinkerPop 3 support it's not a priority for us, because we don't use it: there is a solid Java API for interacting with Bio4j, which takes into account specifics of the DB schema, and we are also working on the Scala API.

So as you said it's a "big job with limited benefit", while we are a small team and have a lot of other projects to maintain at the same time. But if you have enthusiasm to do at least some of this work, it would be very helpful :wink: