git-annex?

[brainstorm]

Cool stuff @robinandeer, as always! Cosmid really reminds me of git-annex, have you checked it out? People over here in #neuro (@yarikoptic) are going for DataGit:

https://github.com/data-git/datagit

Let me know what you think!

[yarikoptic]

shhhh shhhh -- datagit is illegit -- it is violating the Git trademark, so we were told to rename it soonish.
cosmid's interface looks very similar to what we are aiming at eventually, indeed with the git-annex in the backend. BTW - I have already a brief correspondence with 1000genomes project admins asking them to enable explicit versioning on S3 to 100% guarantee fetching correct file... unfortunately no versioning for now. Let's hope that date in a filename will show itself 100% reliable ;)
Thanks @brainstorm for pointing to @Cosmid -- good to know about similar-minded fellas and learn from the approaches taken ;-)

[robinandeer]

Thanks!

Although I continue to be encouraged to continue cosmid development I still can't seem to find any time to actually get much work done I'm afraid.

I haven't heard about git-annex or data*** before. I'll have to read up on those projects and others I've added to my todo list:

• http://dat-data.com/index.html
• http://data.okfn.org/

Hopefully we'll get to some point where a critical mass of researchers will adopt one single solutions 🌅

[brainstorm]

Eh, do not forget yet another hipster workflow system:

http://www.nextflow.io/

Pretty cool indeed :)