acd files

[Peter Rice]

Derek Gatherer wrote:
> So would that allow eg. a Perl script to be called? (I ask because I 
> have many old Perl scripts of varying degrees of usefulness, but I am 
> now required to provide tools within an EMBOSS-centric department).

Anything could be called with a system call, and the C wrapper can be 
very brief.

There was also a Perl ACD wrapper from Peter Ernst, and here at EBI we 
have Martin Senger's SoapLab which uses ACD definitions for third party 
programs and generated a SOAP interface - without any EMBOSS C code, but 
the results can only be used in SoapLab if you don't write the EMBOSS C 
part :-)

Hmmmm ... time to update the list of EMBOSS wrappers on the web pages 
perhaps?

Peter