[BioRuby] URL Generation in Bioruby

[Pjotr Prins]

We could have a mixin module with methods that generate all different
URLs in a central location. I think that is a good idea.

Pj.

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:28:47AM +1100, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> Thanks for your response. I would have thought the fact that they change is
> more reason to include it - not less.
> 
> Is that database you speak of freely available? Just as part of the AceDB
> download?
> 
> Thanks,
> ben
> 
> 2008/10/10 Michael Han <mh6 at sanger.ac.uk>
> 
> >
> > On 10 Oct 2008, at 05:18, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > A common thing I find myself doing is to 'linkout' to other databases. For
> > instance, I have a PDB id and I want to link to the corresponding record in
> > pdb.org. Right now, I would have to go to the pdb site and try to reverse
> > engineer it. In the past I've even had to email the webmasters for more
> > information. It seems to me this is a duplication of effort, and so
> > class(es) to collect this information for me might have a place in BioRuby.
> >
> > Does this sound reasonable to anyone? Is there any precendents out there?
> > What might be a good way to structure the code?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ben
> >
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> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > what we did is save URL constructors in an database object in a sprintf
> > style, which is in turn used by the xref objects linked to
> > genes/proteins/etc.
> > Anyway I am not sure if it is a good idea to put it in the bioruby library,
> > as when you have a couple of dozens of different database, you can be sure
> > that one URL will change every few days/weeks, so it is a hassle to keep all
> > of them up-to-date.
> > Michael
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