[Biojava-dev] newbie HOWTO question

[Camilo Rostoker]

Hi,

I'm new to BioJava, and relatively new to Bioinformatics, so please 
excuse my ignorance if I'm looking in the wrong spot altogether...

Is there a way to connect to a remote database and access details about 
specific genes (i.e. description, annotation information, etc)?  For 
example, I have a small Java-based data mining application that performs 
some gene expression analysis using a basic data file that contains just 
the gene name (ie. something like YCR004C -- the systematic name) and I 
would like to be able to pull up as much information as possible about 
that gene from a central repository...

Any help/advice is most appreciated.

Cheers,
Camilo


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Camilo Rostoker                     www.cs.ubc.ca/~rostokec
Department of Computer Science      www.cs.ubc.ca	
University of British Columbia      www.ubc.ca