[Biojava-dev] bioJava, jsci

[Silvère Martin-Michiellot]

Hi,

We are a group of people building the JSci package at jsci.sourceforge.net. 
We are looking to extend/implement biology features. We need support for 
biologists to help us extend the features of the API as we are not experts 
by ourselves.

Thus far we have implemented a basic package with aminoacids, DNA, bases, 
mRNA, proteins. We would like to receive suggestions, ideas about possible 
extensions, API review, etc.
It seems for us we have to work in the same direction as you do to 
minimalize coding effort.
We are also thinking about implementing XML support but from 
http://www.pasteur.fr/cgi-bin/biology/bnb_s.pl?english=1&query=xml it 
appears we are a bit struck to what is cool, working, standard and what is 
not (see for example the comparison from 
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~douglas/proximl/proximl.html).
We are finally wondering how to organise our packages to help users who 
would like to use BioJava along with JSci.

Let us know.

PS: This is my second post as you didn't reply to the first one (or I 
messed up something with your email which happens to me sometimes). As I am 
working with many emails, please apologize any inappropriate sending but 
also note that I really want to ask you about some information and that any 
help (link, forwarding or whatever) will be very appreciated.

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Silvere Martin-Michiellot builds the Internet future on 
www.digitalbiosphere.com
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