MapofLife/MOL — Issue #5: Develop an analysis pipeline
Author: gaurav
Created: 2011-10-31 23:13:46+00:00
State: open

The goal for this issue is to construct an internal analysis pipeline so that calculated raster layers can be provided to the user. This involves (copied from @DanRosauer's notes from our meeting last weekend - see the "Map of Life - Meeting Notes" Google document for further information):

* a Python process (e.g. “process.py”) to pre-compute a presence matrix in the PostgreSQL db summarising the species ranges stored in MoL to a predetermined grid or grids
* data queryable to feed into python analysis algortrhims (which will ultimately run on the cloud backend
* analysis results and metadata written to postgres tables
* then, we draw that, possibly as a single image which is mapped on top of the Google Map, bypassing Windshaft tiling (unless that is useful for some reason).

This is a high-priority task, since it is necessary to make it possible for the Jetz lab to work directly on Map of Life.

Future goals include replacing the sparse matrix with (1) a precomputed intersection of MoL polygons, and later (2) calculating it regularly as new data is added to MoL.