[Biojava-l] Request suggestions for demo applet

[Matthew Pocock]

Robert Byrnes wrote:
> Hello, all--
> 
> I am thinking of using the BioJava classes to create an applet that
> showcases my skills in Java and Bioinformatics on my personal web site.
> I would no doubt use an abbreviated version of BioJava, along with
> sockets to get sequences from databases (if necessary).
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to an original, or not-so-original,
> use for an applet?
> 
> --Bob
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Good luck Bob,

I have run BioJava-enabled applets in mozilla, explorer 5.? and 6 
without hideous side-effects. Some silly ideas:

Paste in a genbank/embl entry or enter an accession and view it graphicaly?

Submit a blast job and view the results as a list of dot-plots?

Paste sequence in, get out CDS predictions and their translations?

You will need to double check a) that the browser supports Java2 (jre 
1.2 or higher) and b) that you can make any necissary socket connections 
via the web host (due to applet security). You may want to use a 
webstart app instead of an applet, or perhaps a BioJava-enabled servlet 
or .jsp and a dumb web client since this gives you total control over 
the execution environment.

Have fun,

Matthew

ps I don't know of any tool that will allow you to strip down a jar, but 
it should be possible to write one - recursive javap and cp should get 
you there - yet another fun way to waste an afternoon