[DAS] DAS Digest, Vol 73, Issue 2

[Leyla Garcia]

Hi all,


On 10/02/2014 17:25, Dr. med. Christoph Gille wrote:
>> just to add - I've known some sources to become unstable with multiple
>> accessions. I seem to remember that In jDas, Leyla implemented a
>> fallback where for sources that threw errors with multiple accessions,
>> it would instead make a series of single identifier requests.
I do not think that jDas does implement such mechanism but it is 
definitely a good idea. I just quickly checked the code and did not find 
any callback.
Maybe we can chat about it during VizBi.

Cheers,
Leyla

>>>> My second question:
>>>> I have loaded all uniprot annotations as one single GFF file.
>>>> http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/?query=reviewed%3ayes&force=yes&format=gff
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to load such GFF file for other services using
>>>> uniprot-identifiers?
>> Ah - I think you are asking if any other DAS sources can serve GFF.
>> Generally - no. However, it very much depends on the server
>> implementation. I don't remember if any of the standard servers
>> officially support GFF download, although I know that has been requested
>> at DAS meetings.. and I seem to remember that Dazzle had a switch for GFF.
>>
>> Jim
> Hi Jim,
>
> many thanks for this valuable information.
> I have not yet measured the time but indeed it feels faster for multiple
> requests.
>
> I like the idea of having a fall back as implemented by Leyla.
>
> I am looking fwd to c U on the Vizbi
> Cheers
>
> Christoph
>
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