[Jalview-discuss] question about using DAS service and JalviewLite

[Jim Procter]

Thanks for replying to the long email, Bernat!  I've cc'ed this reply to 
everyone concerned too.

> And Hi to the others who does'nt know me. My name is Bernat Gel and
> I'm a developer of the jsDAS javascript DAS client library.
>
> Just trying to make some sense of that big email I received... As I
> understand, you've got an applet version of Jalview with no DAS access
> infrastructure and could be interested in using jsDAS to retrieve
> uniprot annotations and feed them to the applet. Is this correct?
>    
that's exactly it.
> As I understand, the applet has a javascript API with a specific
> function to give it features in gff format. jsDAS gets and procesess
> the DAS XML files and builds javascript objects from them. Building a
> valid GFF string from it can be easily done and me or Jose could help
> on that if needed.
>    
excellent - that was what I thought. To be honest, it should be very 
easy to do this - the only possible problem is that JalviewLite's AJAX 
functionality could be less than perfect - but that just means some 
careful bughunting on my part.

> jsDAS is still in development and so, while the code is quite stable
> and the basic commands work quite reliably (alignment, stylesheet and
> structure have not been thoroughly tested) we would like to have
> feedback from potential users in order to improve its API and
> functionality.
>
> Looking forward to talk to you on the DAS workshop.
>
>    
Me too!  Perhaps its worth talking to Jonathan Warren about clearing 
some time for people interested in jsDas hacking to get together on the 
Friday - this is the best way to get some feedback.

Jim.


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