[MOBY-l] updates to MOBY Central API for ontology parsing

[mwilkinson at gene.pbi.nrc.ca]

Hi everyone,

by default now MOBY Central will burrow down through the ontology of the
Service (or up the ontology of the Object) when doing a query.  You can
control this behaviour (independantly) through boolean flags which are
now added as additional query parameters.  See the updates to the
MOBY Central API.

It's pretty cool, actually :-)  It makes the Client much more friendly
because, for example, I can do a VirtualSequence retrieval first, then
select the ones that are a sensible length and retrieve the Sequences
for only those ones before I e.g. send them to the Blast service.  This
was not possible before because my RetrieveSequence service did not take
VirtualSequence objects as input.  Now the Client knows that
VitualSequence objects contain enough information to do a Sequence
retrieval, and ...voila!!

Very very very cool!

this is great fun :-)

M


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