[MOBY] [MOBY-dev] New services

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 11:38, Ken Steube wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:36, Ken Steube wrote:
> > > A service producing AGI_LocusCode/DNASequence can feed a service
> > > consuming NCBI_gi/DNASequence or even NCBI_gi/GenericSequence.
> > > That won't show up in your graph I don't believe.
> >
> > Well... that isn't really true.  If the service provider has specified a
> > namespace, then we must assume that they mean it.  Therefore the service
> > you specify above would not feed into those services.
> 
> But in the case of a DNA sequence it doesn't really matter what
> namespace it is, you still want to BLAST it the same as a DNA
> from any other namespace.

Then the service should not have registered itself as operating in a
particular namespace - if all it cares about is the sequence, then it is
namespace neutral and should have registered itself as operating in "no"
namespace (i.e. in all namespaces).

M