[DAS] Omnigene vs DAS

[Lincoln Stein]

If you read the biodas.org pages, OmniGene is advertised more or less as a 
DAS viewer.  If you read the omnigene pages, it sounds like an Ensembl 
viewer.  I'll clarify the language at my end to make it clearer that OmniGene 
is an omni-viewer!

Lincoln

On Thursday 03 January 2002 19:17, Brian Gilman wrote:
> Wow!!
>
> 	That's absolutely the wrong message we are trying to get out!! How
> can I change that??
>
>
> 	OmniGene is MIDDLEWARE!! That implements the DAS 1.0 and our
> version of the 2.0 (not yet agreed upon so use with caution)
> specification. The difference between omnigene and dazzle/ldas is its use
> of technologies. OmniGene uses the DAS protocol to make requests to your
> datastore (flat file, XML file, database) and sends DAS responses.
> Omniview is the  first application which uses this middleware. It is a
> direct port of the ensembl (perl) gui code. You can set up a fully
> functional DAS server using omnigene and browse ANY DAS datasource with
> omniview.
>
> 	 With omnigene, you don't need to worry
> about servlets, ejb's or any of the other technologies that it uses. We
> have tried to hide all of those implementation details from you. All you
> need to concentrate on is the datastore you are interested in serving data
> from. Right now the easiest way to serve data is through a database which
> supports stored procedures. We are currently in the process of integrating
> mysql and flatfile backends in the architecure.
>
> 	Hope that helps!!
>
> 				-B
>
>
>
> -----------------------
> 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 Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Simon Chan wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I hope someone can help me on this because I seem to be ready to pull my
> > hair out! ;)
> >
> > I've looked at OmniGene at http://omnigene.sourceforge.net/  and read
> > through the docs, but I'm stuck!
> >
> > Questions:
> >
> > The impression this rookie/newbie got from reading through the docs is
> > that OmniGene is a user interface that allows one to connect and browse
> > Ensembl data.  I can't seem to understand the difference, if any, between
> > using OmniGene and DAS.
> >
> >
> > Is there a difference?
> >
> >
> > If so, what are they?
> >
> >
> > Many, many thanks for your time and help, Everyone.
> >
> > Warmest Regards,
> > Simon Chan
> >
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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
lstein@cshl.org			                  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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