[Bioperl-l] general Analysis client added

[Martin Senger]

Dear users,
   I have added two interfaces (Bio::AnalysisI and 
Bio::Factory::AnalysisI) into bioperl-live and their implementation in 
Bio::Tools::Run. It represents a SOAP-based client allowing to call remote 
(mostly command-line) analysis tools from BioPerl. For the time being, 
it calls by default an experimental service running at EBI on top of 
(all) EMBOSS applications - but my intention is to change it soon-ish to 
contact services running at the open-bio servers.
   The documentation is available at 
http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/soaplab/Perl_Client.html (and inside the 
modules, of course). You can also play with the new modules using a 
provided script 'panalysis.PLS'.
   The documentation also signals further steps: to finish and commit
modules for AnalysisServer - so BioPerl will be able to be used on the
server side as well (as it is now already with Heikii's EMBOSS modules -
but the new modules will hopefully be more general allowing to add new
packages, such as statistical package "R", easily). This should be 
definitely finished before this year BOSC (actually I want to present it 
there :-)).

   I will appreciate any comments and suggestion on the released modules.

   Martin

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