[BioRuby] URL Generation in Bioruby

[Ben Woodcroft]

Thanks for the encouragement. I've made an initial attempt at integrating
URL generation into BioRuby. I've made it available as my 'url' branch,
which is available at

http://github.com/wwood/bioruby/tree/url

Is this what you had in mind or am I misunderstanding you?

Thanks,
ben

2008/10/11 Pjotr Prins <pjotr2008 at thebird.nl>

> We could have a mixin module with methods that generate all different
> URLs in a central location. I think that is a good idea.
>
> Pj.
>
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:28:47AM +1100, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> > Thanks for your response. I would have thought the fact that they change
> is
> > more reason to include it - not less.
> >
> > Is that database you speak of freely available? Just as part of the AceDB
> > download?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ben
> >
> > 2008/10/10 Michael Han <mh6 at sanger.ac.uk>
> >
> > >
> > > On 10 Oct 2008, at 05:18, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > A common thing I find myself doing is to 'linkout' to other databases.
> For
> > > instance, I have a PDB id and I want to link to the corresponding
> record in
> > > pdb.org. Right now, I would have to go to the pdb site and try to
> reverse
> > > engineer it. In the past I've even had to email the webmasters for more
> > > information. It seems to me this is a duplication of effort, and so
> > > class(es) to collect this information for me might have a place in
> BioRuby.
> > >
> > > Does this sound reasonable to anyone? Is there any precendents out
> there?
> > > What might be a good way to structure the code?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > ben
> > >
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> > > Hi Ben,
> > >
> > > what we did is save URL constructors in an database object in a sprintf
> > > style, which is in turn used by the xref objects linked to
> > > genes/proteins/etc.
> > > Anyway I am not sure if it is a good idea to put it in the bioruby
> library,
> > > as when you have a couple of dozens of different database, you can be
> sure
> > > that one URL will change every few days/weeks, so it is a hassle to
> keep all
> > > of them up-to-date.
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