[Bioperl-l] Re: [GMOD-devel] GMOD on top of biosql

Elia Stupka elia@fugu-sg.org
Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:55:04 +0800 (SGT)


> For the GMOD browser, it is really simple.  Just implement the Bio::DasI 
> interface from bioperl-live on top of BioSQL, Ensembl and whatever else you 
> like, and the GMOD browser will work with it.

Great, all I needed to know, just a pointer, thanks, I imagined it had to
be extremely simple.

Elia

> 
> I'm running in and out, so I'm sorry to have taken so long to respond, but 
> I'll write a more detailed message over the weekend.
> 
> Lincoln
> 
> On Wednesday 12 June 2002 22:44, Elia Stupka wrote:
> > Hi Lincoln,
> >
> > we want to get GMOD to work with biosql, and rather than outguessing the
> > process (which I think should be fairly straightforward) can you give us a
> > roadmap of how you think we should do it? As far as I see it already
> > relies on bioperl sequence and feature objects, so all that is needed is
> > to write adaptors that rather than talking to DB:GFF talk to bioperl-db,
> > right? If that is correct, how do you want us to do it? Would you like us
> > to be GMOD developers and create directories and namespaces for each type
> > of adaptor (GFF, bioperl-db, why not Ensembl?) within the GMOD codebase?
> >
> > Let me know:
> >
> > a)if you have already done steps in this direction
> >
> > b)how best to focus our efforts not to waste time, and to do it in
> > whichever way GMOD would prefer it to work
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Elia
> 
> 

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