[BioRuby] Ensembl API

[jan aerts (RI)]

Michael,

As you mention that we maybe won't be able to cover everything with the
default activerecord behaviour: what problems are you thinking of?

Note: I'd like to use the perl API as a guide. And indeed working out
the Slice object was quite simple...

jan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Han [mailto:mh6 at sanger.ac.uk] 
Sent: 09 May 2007 14:38
To: jan aerts (RI)
Subject: Re: [BioRuby] Ensembl API

On 9 May 2007, at 14:14, jan aerts ((RI)) wrote:
> Has anyone worked on an Ensembl API? There is a perl API and the 
> database schema is well-documented. On first impression, it seems 
> straightforward to make one using ActiveRecord, but I wouldn't want to

> waste efforts on that if someone else is already working on it.
>
> See http://www.ensembl.org/info/software/core/index.html
>
> Dr Jan Aerts
> Bioinformatics Group

Hi Jan,

I am not sure if you can cover everything with a the default active-
record behavior.
But I would be a happy user of a ruby EnsEMBL API.
If you need/want help with it, I would also volunteer.

Michael