[Biojava-l] some comments and wish list

[Simon Brocklehurst]

Bruce Ling wrote:

>I see one good direction of the

> biojava is its xml parser development, but there is no development in the
> code which constitutes bio seq objects directly from the parser or from seq
> objects to xml.  One question, are you going to support GAME in biojava in
> the near future?
>
> Any way, just some random thoughts.  Hopefully it can help the leaders in
> biojava to plan for the future projects.
>
> Bruce Ling
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Hi Bruce,

Thanks for you comments. In regards of the SAX Parser stuff (is this what you
mean by xml parser?), we are certainly planning to address some of what you're
looking for in terms of populating biojava objects. You should also know that
it is most certainly our aim to build systems that are easy to learn and use
(hence the use of facade classes in the sax package).  In regard of judging us
on ease of use, please do this do on full/point releases, rather than what's in
biojava-live.  Biojava-live is always a work in progress.

In regard of GAME, we are indeed considering ways to support this.  I can't
promise we will get it in to the 1.1 release, however.

Simon
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Simon M. Brocklehurst, Ph.D.
Head of Bioinformatics & Advanced IS
Cambridge Antibody Technology
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