[BioRuby] Ensembl API

[jan aerts (RI)]

I've tried a connection similar to the ones used by the perl API and am
able to connect directly to the core and other databases. Am currently
playing around with the cow features, actually :-)

jan. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Han [mailto:mh6 at sanger.ac.uk] 
Sent: 09 May 2007 14:57
To: jan aerts (RI)
Cc: bioruby at lists.open-bio.org
Subject: Re: [BioRuby] Ensembl API


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