[BioPython] Initial python server/client

[Jeffrey Chang]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Brad Chapman wrote:

> 
> Hello all!
>     On behalf of the biopythoners, I've been working on our part of 
> trying to get things working with Ewan's proposed idl for 
> Bioperl/python/java intercommunication. I just sent my initial humble 
> attempts at this to Jeff, so hopefully he'll be able to check it into 
> cvs for me so anyone who wants to can check it out.

Great work, Brad!


>     So far I've got the following things accomplished:
> 
> 1. Created a simple server that just returns the appropriate type of 
> objects (since there isn't a code base in biopython to back up the 
> idl). The server supplies a 'PrimarySeq' object, like the initial 
> bioperl server.

I've added some sequence code in the last few days.  Sequence is like an
AnonymousSequence, and a NamedSequence will give it almost all the
functionality of a PrimarySeq.

However, there's still no code that uses these...

The FASTA parsing code is nearly finished, though.  Perhaps an interested
person could get it to output NamedSequence objects.


> 2. Created a client that tests out the python server.

Great!

> 3. Created a second client to test out the initial bioperl server and 
> managed to successfully talk with bioperl (yay!).

Excellent news!

Jeff