{"id":2083,"date":"2005-05-25T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/25\/this-is-me-being-geeky\/"},"modified":"2005-05-25T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-25T17:01:00","slug":"this-is-me-being-geeky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/25\/this-is-me-being-geeky\/","title":{"rendered":"This is me being geeky"},"content":{"rendered":"

People have been asking me if I like my new job and what exactly it is I'm doing here. Short answers for both: I love my job and I'm designing and implementing web services for ontology and controlled vocabulary lookups. <\/p>\n

It's amazing the surge of productivity I've seen in myself since I moved here. The job I was doing at McGill was, to put it mildly, not up my alley. I could do it, but I hated every minute of it. To those people who know me well, this will say it all: I'm looking forward to go to work in the morning now and I haven't been late once! (though the fear of missing my only means of getting to the office might have a bit to do with that last one)<\/p>\n

As to what I'm doing, we need a centralized source to query ontologies like GO and MeSH (to name a few). Things like that's the ID associated with this term, or what are all the child terms that are linked to this ID. Since this is going to be reused by a few people, we decided to go for broke and make a nice series of webservices, cause we're nice like that. You'll find the database schema and the class diagram below:<\/p>\n

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This has been my moment of geekiness, please ignore all of the above if you're not computationally enclined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People have been asking me if I like my new job and what exactly it is I'm doing here. Short answers for both: I love my job and I'm designing and implementing web services for ontology and controlled vocabulary lookups. It's amazing the surge of productivity I've seen in myself since I moved here. The…<\/p>\n

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