[DAS] Question about das development.

[David Block]

So close - the author of the first link was at BOSC!

Chris - this Bill Gooding wants to collaborate on an SVG viewer starting 
from XML and using XSLT - you guys should be collaborating.

Go for it!
Dave

On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 05:51 AM, Lincoln Stein wrote:

> Search for "SVG" and "genome browser" on google.  Here's one:
>
> http://www.svgopen.org/abstracts/lewis_et_al__bioviz_genome_viewer.html
>
> Here's another:
>
> http://www.labbook.com/
>
> Here's a third (ruby):
>
> http://gb.bioruby.org/
>
> There's also a commercial java based browser that uses XML as its data
> transport and SVG for its UI, but for the life of me I can't find the 
> name or
> URL (it's in development).
>
> Lincoln
>
> On Monday 12 August 2002 03:12 pm, Bill Gooding wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Although I am new to the mailing list, I have been looking at
>> bioinformatics information for a while and had a simple question.  From
>> what I have seen it appears that in order to access the XML information
>> from various servers people use a downloaded java program which 
>> implements
>> a GUI (Swing/AWT) for displaying information.  I was wondering if 
>> anyone
>> had considered using an XML based server that tranforms the data into 
>> SVG
>> for display on a browser.  That is, something similar to Cocoon.  That 
>> way,
>> differing XML format could be handled in a more comprehensive way.  I 
>> have
>> begun writing code to implement this idea (although it is not Cocoon 
>> based
>> - I use jave xml api's) and am perfectly willing to donate it to 
>> biodas.org
>> as open source as a start to developing such a system.
>>
>> So with that background my question is:
>>
>> 1.  If a system such as I have proposed has been developed, where is 
>> it ?
>> I just need a specific link.
>>
>> 2.  If such a system does not exist, is anyone interested in the idea 
>> or
>> want to discuss it ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Bill Gooding
>>
>>
>>
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