[Biojava-dev] Direct access to public genome databases

[Andreas Prlic]

> DAS looks just wonderful, and I am very glad to be made aware of it –
> it seems like a much better solution than my initial, highly naive
> reaction (accessing public SQL connections).

don;t think that this is naive. There is also ensembldb.ensembl.org
which is a public mysql server if you prefer sql....

>
> As I understand it, the easiest way to access DAS services in Java is
> via an API such as JAX-WS?   Jumping into the Javadocs, and looking
> over a JAX-WS tutorial that I found here:
> http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/2.0/tutorial/doc/ it looks there
> is a lot to this.

I have not tried JAX-WS yet, so I can not comment on that, but if you  
want a library
that makes it easier to talk to DAS servers, you can use my
DAS client library at: http://www.spice-3d.org/dasobert/

Andreas


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Andreas Prlic      Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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