[BioRuby] Ensembl API

[Michael Han]

On 9 May 2007, at 14:49, jan aerts ((RI)) wrote:
> A post (in Japanese) about this shows a good primer:
> http://itoshi.tv/d/?date=20060829

my Japanese is not so good, but isn't that run on a BioMart and not  
an ensembl-core schema?

> I'm testing this out on some tables of the Ensembl core and variation
> databases, and things look promising... As you say it might well be  
> that
> we can't cover everything, but at least we can get quite far.
>
> jan.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Han [mailto:mh6 at sanger.ac.uk]
> Sent: 09 May 2007 14:38
> To: jan aerts (RI)
> Subject: Re: [BioRuby] Ensembl API
>
> On 9 May 2007, at 14:14, jan aerts ((RI)) wrote:
>> Has anyone worked on an Ensembl API? There is a perl API and the
>> database schema is well-documented. On first impression, it seems
>> straightforward to make one using ActiveRecord, but I wouldn't  
>> want to
>
>> waste efforts on that if someone else is already working on it.
>>
>> See http://www.ensembl.org/info/software/core/index.html
>>
>> Dr Jan Aerts
>> Bioinformatics Group
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> I am not sure if you can cover everything with a the default active-
> record behavior.
> But I would be a happy user of a ruby EnsEMBL API.
> If you need/want help with it, I would also volunteer.
>
> Michael