[BioPython] Working on Fnorb WAS:Bioperl-guts: revised idl

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Brad Chapman wrote:

> 
> >> HAve you looked into Fnorb at all jeff?
> > 
> > Alas, no.  It's on my to-do list.
> > 
> > Biopython does not have the code yet to support this kind of IDL.  
> I've
> > been more concerned with providing parsers, since it's more useful 
> to what
> > I want to do.  With this IDL, however, we could leverage off the work
> > already being done with bioperl and biojava.
> 
> Hello all!
>     I've been doing a lot of lurking on this and the other bio*.org 
> list serves, but thought I would speak up about this since I've been 
> looking for something I might be able to contibute to biopython.
>     I've been watching with interest the thread on the bioperl-guts 
> about Ewan's idl proposal, since I think it is an excellent idea, and 
> since I've been looking for an opportunity to get some experience 
> coding CORBA stuff. So, although I don't have any first hand CORBA 
> experience (great credentials, I know :-) I've been doing a lot of 
> reading up on things, and have been playing around with the Fnorb 
> examples, kind of waiting for some CORBA coding opportunity to come my 
> way.

Sounds great! It might be that you'd like to have clients to the idl
objects. What I/matt need to do is make some live servers possible. 
I might try that today.


>     So anyways, I'd be very interested in trying to get the biopython 
> code (whatever there is of it--I'm in the dark about what is completed 
> since I don't have cvs access) compliant with the proposed idl, if you 
> all would like to have a beginner give it a shot...
> 
> Brad
> 
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