[Biopython-dev] DAS implementation

[Bernardo Clavijo]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Great! a starting point for the client part... i'll check it out that
for a starting point, I see there are some "TODO" parts... i'll try to
handle those.
Anyone having something similar as for the server part?

Greets

bj