[BioPython] what should I do next?

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:01:14 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Brad Chapman wrote:

>     As far as test cases go, that would be really spectacular. I'm 
> going to try and follow Ewan's suggestion of making a client corba 
> interface that models the actual Biopython interface, so hopefully 
> most of the test code for Biopython should be able to be used for the 
> corba interface (provided the functions are implemented in Biocorba 
> :), with just a change in the import:

With a CORBA client you can run bioperl as a server and then get all the
bioperl sequence format reading stuff "for free" which is the whole idea
about CORBA interoperation....