The Week 7

Greetings,

Glad to inform you that we have completed the metadata classes along with the reading and writing of models using the new annotation structure in various formats. This is completely backward-compatible, with many issues fixed and is completely lossless to any type of information. The annotation attribute of a given component now stores the external resources i.e CVTerms, history of that component, and a list of key-value pairs (introduced in FBA package version 3). Simply calling the "annotation" attribute of a given component will return data in the old format, and it will be synchronized with the data stored in the "cvterms" attribute.

I have been modifying these classes from the last few days, making them more clean and simple, as instructed by mentors. Tests for these classes were also added last week, and they are all working fine. The tests are made small and independent to test each and every functionality, so they can be easily understood. The first phase evaluation will soon start, and the work of this phase is almost complete. I am currently commenting the code and we shall send the final pull request soon.

Nothing much for this blog.
See you next week. 
Location: Rewari, Haryana, India

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