[DAS] Question about DAS clients and DAS registry servers

[Jonathan Warren]

Hi Dan

Thanks for putting up the table - I'll add some info to it shortly.
The dasregistry source code is downloadable using subversion at
http://www.derkholm.net/svn/repos/dasregistry/trunk/

You will also need a mysql instance set up. I can send you some info on
that if you wish.

There are many dependencies and configurations needed- so it may take a
while to set up a fully fledged version - it may be better to experiment
with your sources using the real one - I'll help you out if you need
clarification on anything such as error messages and logs. Or is it that
you don't want to release your data to the world and only want an in
house version?

I think I would recomment using ensembl to connect to your sources in
the first instance - but if you want the client to sit on your
desktop/local server then maybe GBrowse (this is for genomic annotations
obvioyusly)?




On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 12:11 +0000, Dan Bolser wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm relatively new to DAS, and I have been playing with setting up a
> DAS server using Dazzle. Now that I have created my reference and
> annotation data sources, naturally enough I would like to start
> browsing and visualizing the data. So...
> 
> Q1) Which DAS client do you recommend for a beginner working with Dazzle?
> 
> 
> I am working in a Linux OS, and I am looking at gene predictions on a
> chromosome as well as 'similarity' features between the chromosome and
> several 'clones' from a closely related organism.
> 
> To organize my research into the various clients available, I created
> the following page on Wikipedia:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Annotation_System/Clients
> 
> 
> That table is still quite rough, so please feel free to contribute
> information there. I put the table into a sub-page of the DAS page so
> that sites like http://www.biodas.org/ can easily 'transclude' this
> information. I'm not sure if that's sensible or not yet, so let me
> know what you think.
> 
> 
> Since we are exploring the various possibilities of using DAS with our
> projects, is it possible to set up a local (private) DAS registry
> server? This would be useful for testing purposes, especially as we
> may be initially working with unpublished data.
> 
> Q2) What steps are required for setting up a local or a secure DAS registry?
> 
> 
> Thanks very much for any help with the above two questions.
> 
> Dan
> 
> P.S. Is this spam? http://www.biodas.org/wiki/Smother or some strange
> data encoding that I don't understand? I've seen more than one page
> that looks like this. e.g. http://www.biodas.org/wiki/Selflessnesss -
> Should I go ahead and delete this pages?
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