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federicomarini / NetworkHub

The one-stop shop for retrieving, accessing, and using network data in R/Bioconductor
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General question #1

Open jorainer opened 12 months ago

jorainer commented 12 months ago

Hi Fede, I was just a bit confused what this package is supposed to do. I see a clear advantage to allow getting network/graph resources through a hub (NetworkHub or even just AnnotationHub?) - making it easier to the user to get the resource, in a certain version, without having to look it up. Was that the idea?

federicomarini commented 12 months ago

Basically it is the latter. Streamlining the access could be done no matter what the "platform" where the data is stored. The Hub in the name came in after Vince suggested these could also land onto something like [Annotation|Experiment]Hub. Could have simply been... something else.

I will try to have something polished enough to give you a more concrete example of how we intended the main use case to be.

Could also become something slightly "more enhanced" by the fact that we can interface nicely with Biocypher - got quite some input and ideas from a conversation with @slobentanzer.

We can draft out some more hands-on cases to see what the best way to proceed will end up being. I can envision a combination of these two to be a potentially perfect compromise.