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Could you tell us how this compares with Synapse (https://www.synapse.org/ https://www.synapse.org/)?. They've been doing this for a long time and have a large
by mbreese 9y ago
Could you tell us how this compares with Synapse (https://www.synapse.org/ https://www.synapse.org/)?. They've been doing this for a long time and have a large presence in computational biology.
- akarve 9y agoI know only a bit about Synapse. It seems like they have some valuable data. I think the biggest differences are in the culture and user experience. Quilt gets its DNA from the open/community-driven cultures of GitHub and npm. We want to make it extremely light-weight for anyone to push and share data packages. Synapse frankly seems to have a lot more features. We want to compete on simplicity. Does Synapse offer server-side filtering? That's something we're thinking about.
- dtech81 9y ago> We want to compete on simplicity. Bravo, this is an excellent strategy. I've been using NPM packages to share small datasets for a little while due to the simplicity of distribution.