[rules-users] Newbie: is my data model suitable for drools ?

[Wolfgang Laun]

In order to judge the quality of a data model for Drools you should
have a fairly conclusive idea about the rules you are going to write.
(This isn't different from other applications: Storing the data in
some organisation may work fine, but fitness for access is a different
matter.)

The Lists may stand investigation. Is the order in the List important?
Is the List just a hidden set? Is an m:n relationship better expressed
by an entity of its own?

The relational data model of DBs is a good approach for being prepared
for a variety of requests and, therefore, rules.

-W


On 16/05/2014, lindenb <plindenbaum at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working in the field of bioinformatics where I study more a large
> number
> of variations (N> 10E6) along the human genome  among individuals affected
> by a genetic disease. ( * )
>
> my data looks like this (much simplified !)
>
> #CHROMOSOME  POSITION  GENE         PROPERTIES      SAMPLE1  SAMPLE2
> SAMPLE3
> chr1         987       GENE1,GENE3  score=1         null     A/A      A/G
> chr1         988       GENE3        score=4;id=989  A/G      null     A/A
> chr1         1988      null         score=4;id=989  C/G      null     C/A
>
>
> People in my lab have to filter those variation using different strategy,
> they then extract the overlapping genes and then filter those genes to find
> one or more gene that could explain the disease.
>
> Currently they use knime.org to run those filters.
> (http://www.myexperiment.org/workflows/2320.html )
>
> But I've got the feeling that drools could be used to filter those
> variations.
> Users would 'just' have to write some rules, run the engine and get the
> result.
> Rules would be removed/switched to get the result for another strategy.
>
> Question:
> 1)  is drools a good choice here ?
> 2) how should I model my data ?
>
> If I use this java model:
>
> class Gene {
> List<Variation> getVariations();
> }
>
> class Variation {
> String getChromosome();
> int getPosition();
> List<Gene> getGenes();
> List<Genotype> getGenotypes();
> }
>
> class Genotype{
> Variation getVariation();
> Sample getSample();
> String getDNA();
> }
>
> it will create a large graph, can drools support it ?
>
> 3) Where in the documentation can I find how to easily set the state my
> objects in order to filter them. E.g:
>
> variations ->[filters1]-> [filter2]----------------->[fiilter5] -> result
>                               `>[filter3]->[filter4]--/
>
> Thank you,
>
> Pierre
>
> (*)
> http://www.1000genomes.org/wiki/Analysis/Variant%20Call%20Format/vcf-variant-call-format-version-41
>
>
>
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