[DAS] Getting Started With DAS

[Brian Gilman]

Hello Dave,

	Yes, OmniGene has a library called omnidas which is a full
features client library to  DAS 1  servers. We have many, many examples of
pulling data from the common data providers. See our /examples/omnidas
directory to get a good overview of how to use the API. There is also
fairly good documentation on using this library in /docs. Then, when you
becoming a bit more daring, try using our web services layer that connects
to DAS and 1.0 to SOAPify it. After this you may delve deeper and look
into our webservices packages for "everything functional genomics". 

	Any questions can be directed to: omnigene@sourceforge.net or
omnigene@genome.wi.mit.edu or gilmanb@genome.wi.mit.edu. There are 15
developers who are happy to help you on either of the first two lists. 

			Best,

					-B

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Brian Gilman <gilmanb@genome.wi.mit.edu>
Group Leader Medical & Population Genetics Dept.
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 Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Tony Cox wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Dave Wall wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> The java library you probably need is omnidas - part of the omnigene suite of
> APIs. Find it at Sourceforge.
> 
> regards
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> +>Hi everyone.  I am new to DAS and have a few questions about getting
> +>started.  Would anyone be will to answer a few questions via email to help
> +>me get started?  (I am thinking email would work better because then we
> +>wouldn't clutter up the forum.)  As background and to help you see what I
> +>am after, I am looking at the client side of DAS.  I wrote a little code to
> +>access a public DAS server but was not able to complete a path to an
> +>annotation.  I can get a list of DSNs and a list of features, but am not
> +>able to see the annotation referenced by the feature.  To take it back a
> +>level, reading some of the forums and web sites there is talk of a java
> +>based LGPL class library to help write the client side.  Unfortunately I
> +>can't find the class library or documentation for it.  Anyone willing to
> +>take a few minutes to answer a few questions?  Thanks!
> +>
> +>David Wall
> +>IBM Life Sciences
> +>
> +>
> +>
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