[DAS] annotation viewer

[David Huen]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Simon Chan wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> We are trying to set up a DAS server on Sun machine.  I found this passage in one of the docs on
> DAS:
> 
> "The client, an annotation viewer, is a lightweight application whose behavior is analogous to a
> web browser.  The viewer communicates with the genome and annotaion servers using a well defined
> langauge specification."
> 
> How do we "create" this annotation viewer?  I am an undergrad student who is learning this as I
> go, so your help and comments to "set me straight" would be very much appreciated!!
> 
You won't need to create one as these are available off the shelf from
various participating groups in the DAS project.  If you look at
http://www.biodas.org/, they are listed as "complete DAS clients".

I should add that all are currently being developed further AFAIK and
improvements are likely to be available at regular intervals.

Regards,
David Huen, Univ. of Cambridge