[bip] ETL in Python? (Informatica vs. SnapLogic)

[Paul Davis]

Granted I haven't spent that much time looking over this, but at the
moment, I'm discarding the project as business speak.

The idea isn't a bad one. But I think it'd be a lot more productive to
come up with a more concrete system design.

If you haven't read [1], the stuff on using Make to detect SNP's is
close to what I would envision for a 'real' ETL system.

[1] http://bioinfo.mbi.ucla.edu/pygr/docs/final.pdf

But I'm only a stranger on the interwebs :D
Paul Davis

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Kumar McMillan
<kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
>  I figure people doing bioinformatics are using patterns similar to ETL
>  (Extract, Transform, and Load) for data crunching, no?
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etl
>
>  If so, has anyone tried using the open source Python clone of
>  Informatica, SnapLogic?
>  https://www.snaplogic.org/
>
>  I just found about it at PyCon and it sounds very promising as
>  Informatica is conceptually a very nice product.  And a very pricey
>  one!
>  http://www.informatica.com/
>
>  -Kumar
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