Agenda

Notes

• only Karen and Kris present
• discussed ongoing work to link existing viewer to DE
• have curl service that takes a newick string as input and returns an HTTP response with URL to tree
  • for large trees (noticeable for 50K tips) there is a lag between when the URL gets returned and when the tree file has been parsed and is ready to view
  • users should not be presented with the URL until the viz service is ready; or we should give an informative status message (currently, you get a 500 error)
  • the URL contains an identifier. In the long-term, these should be persistent (see below).
• production vs development server
  • currently, portnoy.iplantcollaborative.org is serving as both
  • before the link between viz and the DE goes into production, we should have a separate development server
  • at that time, the identifers in the URLs should be persistent (and should that URL contain a specific server name?)
• Goals for next two weeks
  • finish up SVG export (started previously but needs polishing)
  • implement a method for user to navigate back to a parent node without going all the way back to the root (requested by viz and by TR)
  • implement ingestion of styling information necessary for BSA workshop

Action items that require coordination with other groups

1. Clarify what tree styling information is required for the BSA workshop and how this is being produced / sent to viz tool
2. How to ensure that users do not have access to viz URL before parsing complete (the hack solution would be for us to serve up a "waiting..." message)
3. Determine timeline for initial phase of DE integration and make sure we have resolved development / production server issues