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biojs / biojs

🔬A library of JavaScript components to represent biological data
http://biojs.net/
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Abandoned? #168

Open BjornFJohansson opened 3 years ago

BjornFJohansson commented 3 years ago

Was this project abandoned? Is there a replacement?

cycle20 commented 2 years ago

Good question. Does it worth to invest time to exploring it or trying to bring back to life?

avoid reinventing the wheel in life sciences

BioJS is far more than just a registry for components - we aim to build an infrastructure, with guidelines and tools to avoid reinventing the wheel in life sciences – think “Docker for Bio web components”.

Easy to discover : BioJS sums up over 130 components in the BioJS Registry

-- from https://edu.biojs.net/101/what_is_biojs/ But the registry link does not work (probably https://biojs.io is an umbrella site, but I could not find the referred repository there): image

How can we avoid "reinventing the wheel"?

Based on https://www.open-bio.org/projects/

Apart from the list above - many projects have similar mission statements:

But finally we can find buried, abandoned stuffs. (Respect to exceptions - that are probably independent from a specific industry or domain and have huge number of developers and users.) It is not just reinventing the wheel. It is wasting resources of mankind: time, money, brain capacity, energy (including electricity and efforts of dev guys, users), food, water etc... How can we determine the optimum of diversity, proper balance of racing of concurrent projects? How to avoid something being monopolistic and hindering development, adaptation to new challenges?

I do not know the answers. I am just an disappointed developer...

yochannah commented 2 years ago

Hey folks - if anyone wants help getting rights to take this over I'm happy to help with that as far as I can.

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 4:43 PM Csongor T. G. @.***> wrote:

Good question. Does it worth to invest time to exploring it or trying to bring back to life? avoid reinventing the wheel in life sciences

BioJS is far more than just a registry for components - we aim to build an infrastructure, with guidelines and tools to avoid reinventing the wheel in life sciences – think “Docker for Bio web components”.

Easy to discover : BioJS sums up over 130 components in the BioJS Registry http://biojs.io/

-- from https://edu.biojs.net/101/what_is_biojs/ But the registry link does not work: How can we avoid "reinventing the wheel"?

Based on https://www.open-bio.org/projects/

  • BioJS
  • BioJava
  • BioPerl
  • BioRuby
  • biopython
  • BioPHP
  • bionode
  • BioHaskell
  • Biocaml
  • BioSmallTalk
  • biolib (C/C++)

Apart from the list above - many projects have similar mission statements:

  • our aim to build reusable components
  • our goal is to avoid reinventing the wheel

But finally we can find buried, abandoned stuffs. (Respect to exceptions - that are probably independent from a specific industry or domain and have huge number of developers and users.) It is not just reinventing the wheel. It is wasting resources of mankind: time, money, brain capacity, energy (including electricity and efforts of dev guys, users), food, water etc... How can we determine the optimum of diversity, proper balance of racing of concurrent projects? How to avoid something being monopolistic and hindering development, adaptation to new challenges?

I do not know the answers. I am just an disappointed developer...

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cycle20 commented 2 years ago

Hey folks - if anyone wants help getting rights to take this over I'm happy to help with that as far as I can.

@yochannah Do you mean this GitHub repo or the http://biojs.net repository ownership? Btw I have no current frontend experience. I prefer the backend and/or UI-independent world of softwares.

What are your estimations?

jamesamcl commented 2 years ago

What's the minimum that would need to happen to get the website back up?

yochannah commented 2 years ago

hmmm, so looking at what used to be part of biojs:

the homepage is possibly still paid for (maybe by @rajido?) and could be redirected to a new host - I can try to dig out the cloudflare credentials for it 🙈

The most recent registry front and backend repos are here:

they can be recovered from the archive if needed. I'm also happy to sign over admin rights to someone who is willing to make clear what their plans are with it.

@cycle20 from my side - I don't have a bunch of knowledge to transfer beyond what's already documented in the repos as it is (I think lol). You're right that front-end moves ridiculously fast and whatever is written will be radically out of date three years later. Beyond using libraries sparingly I don't think there's much to do to avoid this.

jamesamcl commented 2 years ago

Update - I'm going to try to get the website back up and running in the next week or so. I will update this issue when there is some progress.

jamesamcl commented 2 years ago

The registry (or what I believe to be the latest version of it) is back up and running at http://biojs.net. Unfortunately as @yochannah mentioned it seems http://biojs.io is gone forever.

I have un-archived the following repositories:

The frontend in particular looks like it could do with some TLC. I am happy to review and accept PRs.