[Biopython-dev] DAS implementation

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Bernardo Clavijo <bjclavijo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, new subscriber here, hopefully lending a hand around
> from now on (Python fan working on bioinformatics, so this is the
> place).
> I've been searching for a DAS server/client but found none written in
> python. Since I'm writting some Chado+Gbrowse+tools web glue in
> python, don't want to attach a perl implementation or such.
> Have anyone some code for this? Maybe it's just that my googling
> skills aren't so good. If not, wouldn't it be nice to have such a
> module in biopython?
> I'm not the best developer in the world, but maybe I could code
> something that serves us all and then it could be included in
> biopython.
> Well, that all for now... hope to hear some answers, and if you think
> that impelmenting DAS would be a nice idea, I'm sure you could provide
> me with a hint in how I could design it (a module interacting with
> Seq? Is there some webserver capabilities, or just write functions and
> let the code ready to glue into a webserver?, etc).
>
> Greets
>
> bj

Hi Bernardo,

Andrea Pierleoni started looking at a DAS client last year:
http://github.com/apierleoni/biopython/tree/das-client
http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2010-July/008047.html

More eyes on this code would be good :)

Peter