[MOBY-l] Differences between BioMoby and DAS

[Paul Gordon]

I think you hit the mail of the head there Mark.  DAS is more like SQL, 
and Moby is more like RPC (in a very abstract sense).
> Hi Kieran,
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> 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 :-)
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> 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.
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> 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...??
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> Just my initial thoughts :-)
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> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:02:08 -0700, Kieran O'Neill <kieran at nbn.ac.za>  
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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.
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>> Thank-you in advance
>> Kieran
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