[DAS2] OmicBrowse from RIKEN

[Lincoln Stein]

It looks very interesting, but this is the first I've heard of SDAS.

Lincoln

On 7/25/07, Steve Chervitz <Steve_Chervitz at affymetrix.com> wrote:
>
> I just noticed this blurb in the latest BioInform, 20 July 07:
>
> > Japan¹s RIKEN has released an update for the OmicBrowse genome browser,
> which
> > displays an integrated view of multiple omics annotations filtered with
> > ontologies. New functions include access controls over secure datasets,
> the
> > ability to change the browser's window size, and genome annotations for
> human,
> > mouse, rat, C. elegans, Arabidopsis, and rice.
>
> http://omicspace.riken.jp/omicBrowse/OmicBrowseRegister.html
>
> They provide a Flash-based client, Java servlet-based server, and a DAS/1
> adapter. Their publication mentions DAS but their system is based on a new
> protocol called "Semantic-Space-based Distributed Annotation System
> (SDAS)".
> They don't cite any spec or other document describing this protocol:
>
> http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/23/4/524
>
> It has some interesting comparative genomics capabilities:
> http://omicspace.riken.jp/HelpOmicBrowse/2D.html
>
> Anyone have experience with it or understand exactly how SDAS works
> relative
> to DAS/1 or DAS/2?
>
> Steve
>
>
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