[DAS] Re: das 1.0

[Brian Gilman]

Hello Doug,

	We are gearing up to release a new version of our viewer by the
end of next week. If you get the latest greatest out of CVS and build it
you will see a "server manager" which allows you to put in the location of
a das server. 

	If you'd like to wait for the java installer/bug fixes/load
testing/mem profiling we will be putting a new build out next friday. The
features include:

	1) Ability to manage servers
	2) annotate features using free text
	3) share annotations in a P2P fashion (a la napster)
	4) add flat file data into the browser (think excel spread sheets)
	5) diff two DAS tracks and get a non-redundant list of features
(this is implemented for SNPs right now)
	6) filter features using position criteria (give me all features
in this area that are no farther apart than 5000 bp's)
	7) Exportability of omnigene screen as a jpeg/postscript (should
we work on printing soon??)

			best, 

				-B

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Brian Gilman <gilmanb@genome.wi.mit.edu>
Sr. Software Engineer MIT/Whitehead Inst. Center for Genome Research
One Kendall Square, Bldg. 300 / Cambridge, MA 02139-1561 USA
phone +1 617  252 1069 / fax +1 617 252 1902


On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Doug Hyatt wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 February 2002 16:11, you wrote:
> > Hi Doug,
> >
> > The problem is that an attribute that contains an ampersand is bad XML. 
> 
> Thanks.  This is what happens when people who don't
> really know XML write XML documents.  :)
> 
> Re: Omniview, no one here has managed to get any general kind
> of DAS client functionality out of it.  Got stuff to build by following
> the directions.  Omniview works great (but don't see any way to 
> specify a das server; ensembl and ucsc seem hard-coded into it).
> None of the other things (omnidas.jar, omnidas-examples.jar, etc.)
> work by following the instructions in their documentation.
> This is the Dec version I'm looking at.  I'll CC Brian on this email--
> maybe he can explain if I'm just doing something stupid.
> (Hi, Brian.  We met at the O'Reilly meeting.) 
> 
> > PS: I'm happy that you're fired up about DAS again!
> 
> Yup, just seems like it has a lot of potential as a standard... 
> but it needs a browser a la Netscape to bring it all together, 
> which is where Omnigene comes in... 
> 
> regards,
> doug
> 
> Doug Hyatt
> Computational Biology
> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
> hyattpd@ornl.gov
> 
> 
> 
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