[MOBY-l] Differences between BioMoby and DAS

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi Kieran,

I don't think there is a paper out there that discusses this, and that may  
be because the two are not really so similar :-)

I think of DAS as more of a query language - you can construct fairly  
arbitrary queries over sequence databases to retrieve features.  Moby is  
anything but a query language (in fact, I have struggled numerous times  
trying to shoe-horn arbitrary queries into Moby, but was never able to  
come up with a sensible solution to this).  The request and response in  
Moby are ~identical; Moby is a data-transformation system, not a query  
system.

You might have more commonality if you compared DAS with e.g. BioCASE,  
since the intentions seem to be more similar between those two  
projects...??

Just my initial thoughts :-)

M




On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:02:08 -0700, Kieran O'Neill <kieran at nbn.ac.za>  
wrote:

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> Hi there
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> I was wondering if anyone on this list knows of a paper comparing
> BioMoby and DAS, highlighting the similarities and differences between
> the two systems. The two are obviously somewhat similar, being systems
> with a central registry describing distributed web services, but I
> think they may have slightly different applications. Also, if I'm not
> mistaken, BioMoby uses an ontology to describe its services, whereas
> an ontology has yet to be finalised for DAS.
>
> Thank-you in advance
> Kieran
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