[Biojava-l] Re: Proposed addition to the SequenceDB interface

[Matthew Pocock]

> Well after looking around I did find something that would make me happy and possibly
> others. A common interface has been worked out for EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ flat file
> formats in use with CORBA servers <http://corba.ebi.ac.uk/EMBL_embl.html>.
> 
> I didn't find anything in biocorba or Biocorba folders and I don't know what
> BioFetch is for. So my guess is, this hasn't been touched here (in BioJava). I think
> it would be a good option. If I every have time away from the bench or my class
> homework, I could work on it.
> 
> Marc
> 

I think the current biocorba client/server for biojava is in the cvs 
module biojava-corba - I may be wrong, does anyone know for sure?

This defines some corba IDL to publish sequences and features between 
projects. It doesn't tackle the issues of content at all. In particular, 
it won't give us a standard vocabulary for feature types.

Biofetch is a CGI interface for fetching flat-file entrys e.g. embl 
files. Again, it publishes content, not the higher-level semantics we 
need. I don't think biofetch made it into 1.21 - will it be in 1.22?

Matthew

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