[BioSQL-l] Web front-ends to BioSQL

[michael watson (IAH-C)]

Hi

I think the conversation is splitting in two, which is great!

First of all, I can see a need for an API, and web-services are a very
interesting way forward, especially as they can be used in many
different systems.  I'd certainly like to see something develop along
those lines.

However, I would like to continue the front-end conversation.  A
web-services API isn't a front-end, it's a means to a front-end, and I
disagree that there is not enough commonality to develop a web-based
front-end.  There are a huge number of groups who want to manage a
sequence collection, they want to be able to search that sequence
collection, list and browse it, export them as EMBL/GenBank, import from
EMBL/GenBank.  Now, if someone was to write import.php, export.php,
search.php and browse.php - well, on top of a BioSQL database, I think
that would be an incredibly powerful app.

Mick

-----Original Message-----
From: biosql-l-bounces at lists.open-bio.org
[mailto:biosql-l-bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Mark Schreiber
Sent: 31 January 2009 11:04
To: Chris Fields
Cc: biosql-l at lists.open-bio.org
Subject: Re: [BioSQL-l] Web front-ends to BioSQL

Hi -

My feeling is that the diversity of languages and frameworks within
languages would mean that a generic web front end to BioSQL will and
should never materialize. What would be a lot more sensible is a
generic API in the form of a webservice or collection of webservices
that could be used by (theoretically) any web frame work to generate a
website.

User preferences and requirements will be far too diverse for a
generic web front end.

- Mark

On 1/31/09, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Another article (as pointed out by Heikki on bioperl-l):
>
>
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Healthcheck-Perl-The-Perl-Future--/fe
atures/112388/0
>
> The last section is all on MVC-oriented frameworks.
>
> chris
>
> On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Gudmundur A. Thorisson wrote:
>
>> We use Catalyst MVC framework for our project
(http://www.hgvbaseg2p.org
>> ). Very good stuff, we combine it with the DBIx::Class ORM and
>> Template Toolkit as the templating engine. Totally recommended.
>>
>>
>>                Mummi
>>
>> On 30 Jan 2009, at 19:45, Chris Fields wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Perl web application framework: Catalyst and Jifty (have not tried
>>> them myself).  RoR gets a lot of press, but I understand the RoR
>>> devs tend not to listen to the core ruby devs and (as a
>>> consequence) had recently run into issues with the 1.8.7 ruby
>>> release, detailed by the always-entertaining chromatic here:
>>>
>>> http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/37125
>>>
>>> chris
>>>
>>>> My $0.02, and I'd be keen so see what comes out of this. If
>>>> there's something I can do to tip the balance towards something
>>>> tangible happening, let me know.
>>>>
>>>> 	-hilmar
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