[BioRuby] Ensembl API

[jan aerts (RI)]

A post (in Japanese) about this shows a good primer:
http://itoshi.tv/d/?date=20060829

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