From lstein at cshl.edu Tue Dec 2 16:13:30 2003 From: lstein at cshl.edu (Lincoln Stein) Date: Tue Dec 2 16:19:49 2003 Subject: [DAS] ProServer, a pluggable DAS server, Bio::SeqIO support added In-Reply-To: <20031128164645.GA27626@ebi.ac.uk> References: <20031128164645.GA27626@ebi.ac.uk> Message-ID: <200312021613.30476.lstein@cshl.edu> Neat! Can you turn this into a one paragraph news announcement? I will post it to the biodas web site. Lincoln On Friday 28 November 2003 11:46 am, Andreas Kahari wrote: > Hi lists (sorry for the cross-posting), > > This for those of you who are interested in DAS but not aware of > ProServer: > > ProServer is a DAS server implementation written in Perl by > Roger Pettett at the Sanger Institute, here outside Cambridge in > the UK. It builds on top of ideas from Tony Cox, also at the > Sanger Institute. > > The point with ProServer is that it is pluggable, so that any > data source may be used as a source to serve DAS features from, > as long as there is source adaptor and a transport module for > it. There are source adaptors already written for a number of > types of sources, and they are fairly easy to extend to other > types of sources or transports (I recently wrote a toy "wgetz" > transport module from the already existing "getz" module which > is used by the Swissprot source adaptor). Other DAS servers > often requires you to create a dedicated database of DAS data. > > I thought it might be of interest to a couple of you to note > that you now also can serve features or sequence data from any > type of file that Bio::SeqIO can read. This, of course, is > only of interest to people with smallish amount of data since > queries are looked up sequentially in the files (unless the > Bio::DB::Flat support in the code is used, which reduces the > lookup time but which doesn't support all formats). > > ProServer is part of the Bio-Das2 module in the biodas CVS > repository: > > > http://cvs.bioperl.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/Bio-Das2/?cvsroot=biodas > > > > Cheers, > Andreas -- ======================================================================== Lincoln D. Stein Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory lstein@cshl.org Cold Spring Harbor, NY ======================================================================== From Wiepert.Mathieu at mayo.edu Tue Dec 30 14:57:25 2003 From: Wiepert.Mathieu at mayo.edu (Wiepert, Mathieu) Date: Tue Dec 30 15:04:53 2003 Subject: [DAS] Making DAS list moderated? Message-ID: <2F41CC6C9777D311ACBD009027B108EA06E9ADEF@excsrv32.mayo.edu> Hi, I have noticed (what seems like) a large growth in spam being sent to the DAS list, resulting in the mailteam having to deal with many discards to said list. I was wondering how people felt about the idea of making the DAS list moderated, becoming a members only posting list. This will alleviate the task of dealing with all of that spam. If people have strong feelings about this one way or the other, I am asking you to please voice your opinion! Otherwise, if there is no outcry against it, we would make it a members only posting list. Apparently the biojava list is set up this way, and seems to be doing ok with it for the moment? Were we to go that route, it was also suggested to me that I ask for some moderator volunteers to do some of the work along with the mail team. So, if anyone wants to contribute their time in that manner, I am sure it would be truly appreciated. Thanks, -mat From lstein at cshl.edu Wed Dec 31 14:53:44 2003 From: lstein at cshl.edu (Lincoln Stein) Date: Wed Dec 31 17:30:37 2003 Subject: [DAS] Making DAS list moderated? In-Reply-To: <2F41CC6C9777D311ACBD009027B108EA06E9ADEF@excsrv32.mayo.edu> References: <2F41CC6C9777D311ACBD009027B108EA06E9ADEF@excsrv32.mayo.edu> Message-ID: <200312311453.44364.lstein@cshl.edu> Hi, This is a fine idea. I guess I don't appreciate the spam level because of all my filters. I would be happy to be a moderator. Lincoln On Tuesday 30 December 2003 02:57 pm, Wiepert, Mathieu wrote: > Hi, > > I have noticed (what seems like) a large growth in spam being sent > to the DAS list, resulting in the mailteam having to deal with many > discards to said list. I was wondering how people felt about the > idea of making the DAS list moderated, becoming a members only > posting list. This will alleviate the task of dealing with all of > that spam. > > If people have strong feelings about this one way or the other, I > am asking you to please voice your opinion! Otherwise, if there is > no outcry against it, we would make it a members only posting list. > Apparently the biojava list is set up this way, and seems to be > doing ok with it for the moment? > > Were we to go that route, it was also suggested to me that I ask > for some moderator volunteers to do some of the work along with the > mail team. So, if anyone wants to contribute their time in that > manner, I am sure it would be truly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > -mat > _______________________________________________ > DAS mailing list > DAS@biodas.org > http://biodas.org/mailman/listinfo/das