[BioPython] Initial python server/client
Ewan Birney
birney@ebi.ac.uk
Sun, 13 Feb 2000 17:41:11 +0000 (GMT)
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Brad Chapman wrote:
>
> Hello all!
> On behalf of the biopythoners, I've been working on our part of
> trying to get things working with Ewan's proposed idl for
> Bioperl/python/java intercommunication. I just sent my initial humble
> attempts at this to Jeff, so hopefully he'll be able to check it into
> cvs for me so anyone who wants to can check it out.
You should get a read/write a/c. Jeff/Andrew if that is ok with you,
I don't think there should be any barriers for people coming in.
Brad - send me your prefered username etc...
> So far I've got the following things accomplished:
>
> 1. Created a simple server that just returns the appropriate type of
> objects (since there isn't a code base in biopython to back up the
> idl). The server supplies a 'PrimarySeq' object, like the initial
> bioperl server.
>
> 2. Created a client that tests out the python server.
>
> 3. Created a second client to test out the initial bioperl server and
> managed to successfully talk with bioperl (yay!).
Wayhay. Sounds great! I want to try this asap...
>
> All of this was done using Fnorb as the ORB, and I included a README
> file in the tarball I sent to Jeff that details how to repeat what
> I've done.
> I'll attempt some biopython/biojava communication as soon as I can
> get the biojava server working, and muster up some free time.
> Comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Looking forward to increased intercommunication,
> Brad
>
>
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