[BioPython] BIODAS support in biopython?

[Brad Chapman]

Catherine:
> > Is there any BIODAS support planned in biopython? Something
> > like Bio::DAS client in perl? 

Jeff:
> This is something we'd like to have, but nobody is working on it right
> now.

Actually... I have been working on something (surprise! :-)
semi-recently because I needed to interact with the TIGR DAS servers for
my work. 

I've written enough of a client to fetch data sources, segments from
the data source, and then features on the segments. I haven't done 
anything with the fancier alignment things that DAS supports, mostly
because I don't really understand all the intracacies of genome
alignment display, etc, and didn't need them myself.

So, I've got this all in a CVS server at bioinformatics.org that I use
for more experimental stuff. Gack, bioinformatics.org is down right now
so I can't give you the CVS commands to check it out... I can do that in 
a bit or tar it up if you are interested.

I was hoping to submit this to biopython at some point, but haven't
really written thorough enough tests nor any documentation (I know, I'm
very bad!). If people don't mind these flaws, I'd be happy to check it
in (it does work :-).

So anyways... that's the status of things. Sorry it's in such a
shambles, but something is going on :-).

Brad
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