[Bioperl-l] a project idea

[Martin Senger]

> > I'd like to suggest the following.  Someone could design an interface
> > Bio::Tools::RunI which all these implementations can implement - something
> > like a bare minimum - parameters(), run(), output()  and handle checking
> > for executable in the path or specified dirs.
> >
   We worked quite hard on the BSA Analysis module - at the moment I am
convinced that it can handle almost all command-line driven tools. The
specification is quite straightforward and - the most important - it is
already implemented (AppLab project: http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/applab).
   As Juha said, I am working now on a non-valuetype flavour on this spec,
a project called NOVELLA ("NO-Valuetype Enhaced Liaison to the appLab
Analyses"). This will be ready in a couple of weeks. A
Novella-AppLab bridge server is ready now, I need some time to prepare a
Perl client. This will be a module BSA::Novella::Client - and the user
will not need to notice that she will be working with CORBA at all.
   Give me few days, then I will announce where you can get it and try it.
Then I will start questions and negotiations with BioCorba people
whether/how they want it as a part of BioCorba.

> > 
> > Attachment to EMBOSS apps would also be an excellent next step.
> 
> EMBOSS is currently working under the AppLab. 
>
   See "cemballo" project: http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/cemballo (but I am
not sure now if the demo server is running and I am away till the end of
this week to restart it - but if it runs, it's a small miracle because I
started it in March as a demo, without any cronjob for restarting attached
to it yet :-)).
 
   Martin

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