From gregghelt at gmail.com Wed Mar 4 10:32:43 2009 From: gregghelt at gmail.com (Gregg Helt) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:32:43 -0500 Subject: [DAS] DAS teleconference tomorrow Message-ID: <50158cb00903040732ke43badbr13581476d3e98192@mail.gmail.com> The semi-regular DAS teleconference got put on hold at the end of last year and never got restarted. I'd like to host one tomorrow, mainly to get a feel for the state of DAS in the US before the DAS workshop next week, since I know most people working on DAS in the states aren't going to be able to make it the workshop. Same time as it used to be held -- Thursday, 9 AM PST US Teleconference #: 866-692-3582 Conference #: 4977624 For UK callins, one of these, not sure which is most appropriate for Hinxton: BIRMINGHAM: 0808-238-6019 GLASGOW: 0808-238-6019 LEEDS: 0808-238-6019 LONDON: 0808-238-6019 MANCHESTER: 0808-238-6019 thanks! Gregg From jeedward at yahoo.com Sun Mar 8 07:15:16 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 04:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [DAS] Draft paper submission is extended (will not be extended further): BCBGC-09 Message-ID: <191007.26227.qm@web45904.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Draft paper submission is extended (will not be extended further): BCBGC-09 ? ? *Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please forward to interested people.* ? The deadline for draft paper submission at the 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) is extended due to numerous requests from the authors. The conference will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee ? ? From uludag at ebi.ac.uk Thu Mar 12 06:07:45 2009 From: uludag at ebi.ac.uk (Mahmut Uludag) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:07:45 +0000 Subject: [DAS] DAS JavaScript library & DAS WADL Message-ID: <1236852465.31816.28.camel@emboss2.ebi.ac.uk> Hi, Further to the DAS JavaScript library and WADL discussion (in DAS workshop) I copied below some links that would be useful if anyone wants to investigate potential of having a WADL description for DAS. https://wadl.dev.java.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Description_Language It looks like NetBeans has already support for designing WADL files and generating JavaScript client stubs from existing WADL files. http://wiki.netbeans.org/WadlDesigner http://www.netbeans.org/features/web/web-services.html One thing I have noticed in the WADL specification it supports type specification using RelaxNG. Since RelaxNG schemas has already been generated for DAS 1.6 spec it looks like it should be an easier work having a WADL description for DAS 1.6? If anyone didn't use NetBeans before and hesitant to touch it I can say that it is a quite stable, user friendly IDE with good documentation and and tutorials. Regards, Mahmut From gregghelt at gmail.com Mon Mar 16 08:46:28 2009 From: gregghelt at gmail.com (Gregg Helt) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:46:28 +0000 Subject: [DAS] local installation of DAS registry Message-ID: <50158cb00903160546j173933c7hdd013c7f15b1d1d@mail.gmail.com> Is anyone running a local installation of the Sanger DAS registry? I'm working on getting a deployment running, and I'm wondering what other people's experience with this is. thanks, Gregg From jw12 at sanger.ac.uk Tue Mar 17 07:07:18 2009 From: jw12 at sanger.ac.uk (Jonathan Warren) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:07:18 +0000 Subject: [DAS] DAS workshop summary Message-ID: Thanks for everyone who attended and presented at the DAS workshop 2009. It seems that from the feedback forms it was a very successful event and we have already started working on another for next year. The presentations from Day 1 and Day 2 are now available on the biodas site at http://www.biodas.org/wiki/DASworkshop200903 and there is a discussion/summary page at http://www.biodas.org/wiki/DASworkshop200903Day3 for people who attended the workshop to write summary information about what was discussed. There is also a DAS 1.6E page http://www.biodas.org/wiki/DAS1.6E for proposals for the later specifications after the coming 1.6 spec release. Thanks Jonathan Warren Senior Developer and DAS Coordinator The Sanger Institute. -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. From andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk Mon Mar 30 09:47:53 2009 From: andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk (Andy Jenkinson) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:47:53 +0100 Subject: [DAS] DAS 1.6 draft Message-ID: <49D0CD89.6060704@ebi.ac.uk> Hi all, As many of you will know, we plan to update the ageing 1.53 version of the DAS specification currently available on the BioDAS website with one that hopefully better reflects current usage of DAS. Most changes are taken from the extensions defined in the extended 1.53E spec, but with some differences and further additions. We aim to formally release 1.6 at the end of June, but I have made available the first draft: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~aj/1.6_draft1/documents/spec.html The hope is that this will give software authors time to prepare, in order to minimise the impact of the transition. Updated versions of core client/server libraries (ProServer, Bio-Das-Lite, Dazzle, Dasobert) will be made available in due course. I am happy to gather feedback and engage in discussion about the changes (I won't list them individually here). Especially helpful would be amendments for sections of the document that would improve clarity, examples etc. Note that this is still a draft however - in particular, the structure and alignment commands may be "tidied up" and the stylesheet glyphs section further fleshed out. Cheers, Andy From andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk Mon Mar 30 12:52:57 2009 From: andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk (Andy Jenkinson) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:52:57 +0100 Subject: [DAS] 1.6 draft 1 feedback In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49D0F8E9.9050705@ebi.ac.uk> Replying to some suggestions from Jonathan, I thought I'd post to the list: Jonathan Warren wrote: > I'm going through and making up the relaxng docs 1.6 specific. So for > the entry_points start and stop are you saying start and stop (both > optional), so we assume if stop omitted it=total and if start omitted we > say =1 or do we want both either specified or neither specified? Reading it now, it's certainly a potential point of confusion. How about just making all three required? There shouldn't be any extra overhead for the server if it has to implement 'total', anyway. I will also explicitly state how to handle "out of range" requests: "If a client requests an invalid range of rows (e.g. completely beyond the range offered by the server, or negative values) the server responds with an X-DAS-Status of 402 (see the Request section). However, if the server has entry points for at least one of the requested range of rows, they are returned as normal (the actual rows returned being indicated via the start and end attributes)." > probably worth while putting "deprecated" in pink bits as if people > don't read the whole document they will think they are still part of the > spec. Sounds reasonable. I initially started separating the deprecated bits out, putting them at the end of each section, but it looked confusing. I'll just mark them with text. From andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk Tue Mar 31 12:00:31 2009 From: andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk (Andy Jenkinson) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:31 +0100 Subject: [DAS] DAS 1.6 draft In-Reply-To: <43B2AC59-EFA8-478E-B399-59F1D2431057@sanger.ac.uk> References: <49D0CD89.6060704@ebi.ac.uk> <43B2AC59-EFA8-478E-B399-59F1D2431057@sanger.ac.uk> Message-ID: <49D23E1F.7010902@ebi.ac.uk> In 1.53, the method element's id attribute and CDATA were both optional. This meant the following was legal (but clearly wrong!): Now in 1.6, the id attribute is required but tag content is optional: bar Likewise the TYPE element follows the same principle. IMO this is the "correct" thing to do. ProServer -currently- (i.e. 1.53) will copy the ID into the tag contents if not provided explicitly, so the tag contents is always present: foo Most implementations don't bother to provide a separate "pretty" name for the method, so look like this. This is generally what clients would do anyway if they display the method - i.e. if the server doesn't provide a human readable method (tag content), the ID is used for display instead. But I have no qualms in changing ProServer to obey the spirit of the spec more closely, if that is seen as preferable. Andy Jonathan Warren wrote: > looking through the das sources and the 1.6 spec it looks like > duplication in the features method and type attributes and element > contents happens a lot. Have we got some usage where the attribute and > element are not just duplicated? would be good if anyone has any > examples of these being used properly... > > > > > nsSNP > dbSNP > > > or in some cases completely ignored such as type: > 37563756 id="ssahaSNP">ssahaSNP > > > On 30 Mar 2009, at 14:47, Andy Jenkinson wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As many of you will know, we plan to update the ageing 1.53 version of >> the DAS specification currently available on the BioDAS website with >> one that hopefully better reflects current usage of DAS. Most changes >> are taken from the extensions defined in the extended 1.53E spec, but >> with some differences and further additions. >> >> We aim to formally release 1.6 at the end of June, but I have made >> available the first draft: >> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~aj/1.6_draft1/documents/spec.html >> >> The hope is that this will give software authors time to prepare, in >> order to minimise the impact of the transition. Updated versions of >> core client/server libraries (ProServer, Bio-Das-Lite, Dazzle, >> Dasobert) will be made available in due course. >> >> I am happy to gather feedback and engage in discussion about the >> changes (I won't list them individually here). Especially helpful >> would be amendments for sections of the document that would improve >> clarity, examples etc. Note that this is still a draft however - in >> particular, the structure and alignment commands may be "tidied up" >> and the stylesheet glyphs section further fleshed out. >> >> Cheers, >> Andy >> _______________________________________________ >> DAS mailing list >> DAS at lists.open-bio.org >> http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/das > > > From jw12 at sanger.ac.uk Tue Mar 31 11:33:31 2009 From: jw12 at sanger.ac.uk (Jonathan Warren) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:33:31 +0100 Subject: [DAS] DAS 1.6 draft In-Reply-To: <49D0CD89.6060704@ebi.ac.uk> References: <49D0CD89.6060704@ebi.ac.uk> Message-ID: <43B2AC59-EFA8-478E-B399-59F1D2431057@sanger.ac.uk> looking through the das sources and the 1.6 spec it looks like duplication in the features method and type attributes and element contents happens a lot. Have we got some usage where the attribute and element are not just duplicated? would be good if anyone has any examples of these being used properly... nsSNP dbSNP or in some cases completely ignored such as type: 37563756ssahaSNP On 30 Mar 2009, at 14:47, Andy Jenkinson wrote: > Hi all, > > As many of you will know, we plan to update the ageing 1.53 version > of the DAS specification currently available on the BioDAS website > with one that hopefully better reflects current usage of DAS. Most > changes are taken from the extensions defined in the extended 1.53E > spec, but with some differences and further additions. > > We aim to formally release 1.6 at the end of June, but I have made > available the first draft: > http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~aj/1.6_draft1/documents/spec.html > > The hope is that this will give software authors time to prepare, in > order to minimise the impact of the transition. Updated versions of > core client/server libraries (ProServer, Bio-Das-Lite, Dazzle, > Dasobert) will be made available in due course. > > I am happy to gather feedback and engage in discussion about the > changes (I won't list them individually here). Especially helpful > would be amendments for sections of the document that would improve > clarity, examples etc. Note that this is still a draft however - in > particular, the structure and alignment commands may be "tidied up" > and the stylesheet glyphs section further fleshed out. > > Cheers, > Andy > _______________________________________________ > DAS mailing list > DAS at lists.open-bio.org > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/das -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. From gregghelt at gmail.com Wed Mar 4 15:32:43 2009 From: gregghelt at gmail.com (Gregg Helt) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:32:43 -0500 Subject: [DAS] DAS teleconference tomorrow Message-ID: <50158cb00903040732ke43badbr13581476d3e98192@mail.gmail.com> The semi-regular DAS teleconference got put on hold at the end of last year and never got restarted. I'd like to host one tomorrow, mainly to get a feel for the state of DAS in the US before the DAS workshop next week, since I know most people working on DAS in the states aren't going to be able to make it the workshop. Same time as it used to be held -- Thursday, 9 AM PST US Teleconference #: 866-692-3582 Conference #: 4977624 For UK callins, one of these, not sure which is most appropriate for Hinxton: BIRMINGHAM: 0808-238-6019 GLASGOW: 0808-238-6019 LEEDS: 0808-238-6019 LONDON: 0808-238-6019 MANCHESTER: 0808-238-6019 thanks! Gregg From jeedward at yahoo.com Sun Mar 8 11:15:16 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 04:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [DAS] Draft paper submission is extended (will not be extended further): BCBGC-09 Message-ID: <191007.26227.qm@web45904.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Draft paper submission is extended (will not be extended further): BCBGC-09 ? ? *Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please forward to interested people.* ? The deadline for draft paper submission at the 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) is extended due to numerous requests from the authors. The conference will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee ? ? From uludag at ebi.ac.uk Thu Mar 12 10:07:45 2009 From: uludag at ebi.ac.uk (Mahmut Uludag) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:07:45 +0000 Subject: [DAS] DAS JavaScript library & DAS WADL Message-ID: <1236852465.31816.28.camel@emboss2.ebi.ac.uk> Hi, Further to the DAS JavaScript library and WADL discussion (in DAS workshop) I copied below some links that would be useful if anyone wants to investigate potential of having a WADL description for DAS. https://wadl.dev.java.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Description_Language It looks like NetBeans has already support for designing WADL files and generating JavaScript client stubs from existing WADL files. http://wiki.netbeans.org/WadlDesigner http://www.netbeans.org/features/web/web-services.html One thing I have noticed in the WADL specification it supports type specification using RelaxNG. Since RelaxNG schemas has already been generated for DAS 1.6 spec it looks like it should be an easier work having a WADL description for DAS 1.6? If anyone didn't use NetBeans before and hesitant to touch it I can say that it is a quite stable, user friendly IDE with good documentation and and tutorials. Regards, Mahmut From gregghelt at gmail.com Mon Mar 16 12:46:28 2009 From: gregghelt at gmail.com (Gregg Helt) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:46:28 +0000 Subject: [DAS] local installation of DAS registry Message-ID: <50158cb00903160546j173933c7hdd013c7f15b1d1d@mail.gmail.com> Is anyone running a local installation of the Sanger DAS registry? I'm working on getting a deployment running, and I'm wondering what other people's experience with this is. thanks, Gregg From jw12 at sanger.ac.uk Tue Mar 17 11:07:18 2009 From: jw12 at sanger.ac.uk (Jonathan Warren) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:07:18 +0000 Subject: [DAS] DAS workshop summary Message-ID: Thanks for everyone who attended and presented at the DAS workshop 2009. It seems that from the feedback forms it was a very successful event and we have already started working on another for next year. The presentations from Day 1 and Day 2 are now available on the biodas site at http://www.biodas.org/wiki/DASworkshop200903 and there is a discussion/summary page at http://www.biodas.org/wiki/DASworkshop200903Day3 for people who attended the workshop to write summary information about what was discussed. There is also a DAS 1.6E page http://www.biodas.org/wiki/DAS1.6E for proposals for the later specifications after the coming 1.6 spec release. Thanks Jonathan Warren Senior Developer and DAS Coordinator The Sanger Institute. -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. From andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk Mon Mar 30 13:47:53 2009 From: andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk (Andy Jenkinson) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:47:53 +0100 Subject: [DAS] DAS 1.6 draft Message-ID: <49D0CD89.6060704@ebi.ac.uk> Hi all, As many of you will know, we plan to update the ageing 1.53 version of the DAS specification currently available on the BioDAS website with one that hopefully better reflects current usage of DAS. Most changes are taken from the extensions defined in the extended 1.53E spec, but with some differences and further additions. We aim to formally release 1.6 at the end of June, but I have made available the first draft: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~aj/1.6_draft1/documents/spec.html The hope is that this will give software authors time to prepare, in order to minimise the impact of the transition. Updated versions of core client/server libraries (ProServer, Bio-Das-Lite, Dazzle, Dasobert) will be made available in due course. I am happy to gather feedback and engage in discussion about the changes (I won't list them individually here). Especially helpful would be amendments for sections of the document that would improve clarity, examples etc. Note that this is still a draft however - in particular, the structure and alignment commands may be "tidied up" and the stylesheet glyphs section further fleshed out. Cheers, Andy From andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk Mon Mar 30 16:52:57 2009 From: andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk (Andy Jenkinson) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:52:57 +0100 Subject: [DAS] 1.6 draft 1 feedback In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49D0F8E9.9050705@ebi.ac.uk> Replying to some suggestions from Jonathan, I thought I'd post to the list: Jonathan Warren wrote: > I'm going through and making up the relaxng docs 1.6 specific. So for > the entry_points start and stop are you saying start and stop (both > optional), so we assume if stop omitted it=total and if start omitted we > say =1 or do we want both either specified or neither specified? Reading it now, it's certainly a potential point of confusion. How about just making all three required? There shouldn't be any extra overhead for the server if it has to implement 'total', anyway. I will also explicitly state how to handle "out of range" requests: "If a client requests an invalid range of rows (e.g. completely beyond the range offered by the server, or negative values) the server responds with an X-DAS-Status of 402 (see the Request section). However, if the server has entry points for at least one of the requested range of rows, they are returned as normal (the actual rows returned being indicated via the start and end attributes)." > probably worth while putting "deprecated" in pink bits as if people > don't read the whole document they will think they are still part of the > spec. Sounds reasonable. I initially started separating the deprecated bits out, putting them at the end of each section, but it looked confusing. I'll just mark them with text. From andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk Tue Mar 31 16:00:31 2009 From: andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk (Andy Jenkinson) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:31 +0100 Subject: [DAS] DAS 1.6 draft In-Reply-To: <43B2AC59-EFA8-478E-B399-59F1D2431057@sanger.ac.uk> References: <49D0CD89.6060704@ebi.ac.uk> <43B2AC59-EFA8-478E-B399-59F1D2431057@sanger.ac.uk> Message-ID: <49D23E1F.7010902@ebi.ac.uk> In 1.53, the method element's id attribute and CDATA were both optional. This meant the following was legal (but clearly wrong!): Now in 1.6, the id attribute is required but tag content is optional: bar Likewise the TYPE element follows the same principle. IMO this is the "correct" thing to do. ProServer -currently- (i.e. 1.53) will copy the ID into the tag contents if not provided explicitly, so the tag contents is always present: foo Most implementations don't bother to provide a separate "pretty" name for the method, so look like this. This is generally what clients would do anyway if they display the method - i.e. if the server doesn't provide a human readable method (tag content), the ID is used for display instead. But I have no qualms in changing ProServer to obey the spirit of the spec more closely, if that is seen as preferable. Andy Jonathan Warren wrote: > looking through the das sources and the 1.6 spec it looks like > duplication in the features method and type attributes and element > contents happens a lot. Have we got some usage where the attribute and > element are not just duplicated? would be good if anyone has any > examples of these being used properly... > > > > > nsSNP > dbSNP > > > or in some cases completely ignored such as type: > 37563756 id="ssahaSNP">ssahaSNP > > > On 30 Mar 2009, at 14:47, Andy Jenkinson wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As many of you will know, we plan to update the ageing 1.53 version of >> the DAS specification currently available on the BioDAS website with >> one that hopefully better reflects current usage of DAS. Most changes >> are taken from the extensions defined in the extended 1.53E spec, but >> with some differences and further additions. >> >> We aim to formally release 1.6 at the end of June, but I have made >> available the first draft: >> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~aj/1.6_draft1/documents/spec.html >> >> The hope is that this will give software authors time to prepare, in >> order to minimise the impact of the transition. Updated versions of >> core client/server libraries (ProServer, Bio-Das-Lite, Dazzle, >> Dasobert) will be made available in due course. >> >> I am happy to gather feedback and engage in discussion about the >> changes (I won't list them individually here). Especially helpful >> would be amendments for sections of the document that would improve >> clarity, examples etc. Note that this is still a draft however - in >> particular, the structure and alignment commands may be "tidied up" >> and the stylesheet glyphs section further fleshed out. >> >> Cheers, >> Andy >> _______________________________________________ >> DAS mailing list >> DAS at lists.open-bio.org >> http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/das > > > From jw12 at sanger.ac.uk Tue Mar 31 15:33:31 2009 From: jw12 at sanger.ac.uk (Jonathan Warren) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:33:31 +0100 Subject: [DAS] DAS 1.6 draft In-Reply-To: <49D0CD89.6060704@ebi.ac.uk> References: <49D0CD89.6060704@ebi.ac.uk> Message-ID: <43B2AC59-EFA8-478E-B399-59F1D2431057@sanger.ac.uk> looking through the das sources and the 1.6 spec it looks like duplication in the features method and type attributes and element contents happens a lot. Have we got some usage where the attribute and element are not just duplicated? would be good if anyone has any examples of these being used properly... nsSNP dbSNP or in some cases completely ignored such as type: 37563756ssahaSNP On 30 Mar 2009, at 14:47, Andy Jenkinson wrote: > Hi all, > > As many of you will know, we plan to update the ageing 1.53 version > of the DAS specification currently available on the BioDAS website > with one that hopefully better reflects current usage of DAS. Most > changes are taken from the extensions defined in the extended 1.53E > spec, but with some differences and further additions. > > We aim to formally release 1.6 at the end of June, but I have made > available the first draft: > http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~aj/1.6_draft1/documents/spec.html > > The hope is that this will give software authors time to prepare, in > order to minimise the impact of the transition. Updated versions of > core client/server libraries (ProServer, Bio-Das-Lite, Dazzle, > Dasobert) will be made available in due course. > > I am happy to gather feedback and engage in discussion about the > changes (I won't list them individually here). Especially helpful > would be amendments for sections of the document that would improve > clarity, examples etc. Note that this is still a draft however - in > particular, the structure and alignment commands may be "tidied up" > and the stylesheet glyphs section further fleshed out. > > Cheers, > Andy > _______________________________________________ > DAS mailing list > DAS at lists.open-bio.org > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/das -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.