[BioPython] DAS client

[Andrew Dalke]

Hi Jose,

> I have seen that there is a DAS client for python but I cannot
> get it from the link. Is this client included in the biopython?
> if not how can I get it?
> is it posible to see the source code ?

The accounts got moved around and it appears my biopython.org/~dalke/
is no longer visible through biopython.org.  For that matter, it
appears that I've forgotten my password since I can't seem to log
in to anything there.  Hmmm....

Okay, I got the most recent code *temporarily* at
   http://www.dalkescientific.com/PyDAS-0.8.tar.gz

I'll eventually list it somewhere under
   http://www.dalkescientific.com/Python/

I have not touched the DAS code in over a year nor have
I received comments about it.  As I recall, there were problems
in that none of the DAS servers actually put out correct
DAS, and some didn't even put out valid XML.  PyDAS attempts
to work around some of that, but it has not been tested on
real data for doing real work.  Please plan accordingly.

In addition, that code used a DTD->Python parser generator.
I now no longer believe that that's the right way to handle
this sort of problem.  (Were I to do it again, I would look
at libraries like Fredrick Lundh's ElementTree.  Ditto for
the EUtils code.)

For the good news, I'm listed as a contractor for the DAS2
project, and we should here if it got funded Real Soon Now.
(It got a good review.)  So I'll be doing more DAS programming
starting in the next couple of months.

(In the meanwhile, I'm available for consulting, and while I've
been to Göteborg many times -- next time will be December --
I've yet to be to Stockholm.  ;)

					Andrew
					dalke at dalkescientific.com