[DAS] Registry Login and BigFile formats

[Jonathan Warren]

The DAS registry no longer uses open_id as it's authentication  
mechanism but just username and passwords. More information can be  
found here :  http://biodasman.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/dasregistry-version-4-0-now-released-new-login/

The DAS Registry can now be used for people to advertise their bigfile  
data.
You can now add bigfile formats such as BAM, BIGBED and BIGWIG using  
the bigfile-bam, bigfile-bigbed and bigfile-bigwig capabilities. These  
files are not served from a DAS server but are just available from the  
web (Thus the urls for these “sources” are not expected to have other  
capabilities such as a sources command or a format command). People  
can use the meta data associated with a DAS source or in this case a  
bigfile to advertise the availability of the file to other  
researchers. More information can be found here : http://biodasman.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/users-can-now-register-bigfile-files-such-as-bam-bigwig-or-bigbed/

As always feedback is welcome or rather encouraged as I'd like to get  
the DAS community feedback before advertising this to the wider  
community :)

Many thanks

Jonathan.


Jonathan Warren
Senior Developer and DAS coordinator
blog: http://biodasman.wordpress.com/
jw12 at sanger.ac.uk
Ext: 2314
Telephone: 01223 492314









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