[Bioperl-l] Biocorba proposal

[Alan Robinson]

Since the mail archiver seems to have 'binarified' my attachments, I have
also put the documents at:

	http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/BioCorba-0.2.0/

alan


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On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Ewan Birney wrote:

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> Alan Robinson has a 0.2 spec for biocorba: his proposal (and some lovely
> text describing the reasoning behind this) is at
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> http://biocorba.org/pipermail/biocorba-l/2000-November/000044.html
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> As bioperl will have to "play well" with biocorba (and therefore play well
> with biojava and biopython by association) people interested in where
> bioperl is going in terms of object definition should give this a good
> read.
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> 
> Highlights that impacts bioperl
> 
>    - Moving away from arrays for SeqFeatures
> 
>    - More complex sequence feature location specification - hopefully
> easier to handle EMBL'ness (including the dreaded "fuzziness"), certainly
> more chances to provide "same underlying information represented in more
> than one way" aka, general flexibility. This is the thing that is going to
> keep me up at night, but I can't see any easy way through this.
> 
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> 
> Otherwise we are in good shape for implementing this. I guess jason and me
> are the main implementors of bioperl corba clients and servers - but we
> welcome other people into the fold ;)
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> ewan.
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