Re: [Celsius-users] celsius access

[Brian O'C. <boc...@uc...>]

Hi Geraint,

I think you can accomplish most of what you want via the R API or via 
the web services which have been set up.  The documentation is linked to 
via http://celsius.genomics.ctrl.ucla.edu/ (which will become 
celsius.genome.ucla.edu in the near future).  You can find instructions 
for using the R tutorial at 
http://genome.ucla.edu/wiki/index.php/Celsius_cookbook. Documentation 
about the web service can be found at 
http://celsius.genomics.ctrl.ucla.edu/doc/index.htm for the higher-level 
API and at http://biodas.org/documents/das2/das2_protocol.html for the 
lower level API.  The web services should be much easier to use from 
Java than the R API.

You should also know that Celsius is currently down for scheduled 
maintenance all weekend (we're rebuilding the filesystem it resides on). 
  It should be back up on Monday by 9am Pacific time.

I'm cc'ing Louis Fridkis who is the admin in charge of maintaining the 
Celsius project.  If you have any problems getting the data you need he 
should be able to help.

Let me know if you run into any problem.

--Brian

Barton, Geraint R wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>  
> did you get back from mged ok? I had the longest flight back - 
> brisbane-auckland-la-london - my body still is still confused as to what 
> time it should be.
>  
> We are keen to get going with celsius asap. We would like to use web 
> services to get access. Essentially what we would like to enable our 
> users to do is
>  
> 1) search all experiments and display some of the experimental level 
> annotation eg title, species
>  
> 2) filter eg by array type, species, disease term
>  
> 3) select an experiment
>  
> 4) download cel files and associated annotation from chosen experiment
>  
> Had a look on the site but could any find info on the R commands. Would 
> prefer to use web services. Could you point us in the right direction 
> for documentation. Would be really useful to see a couple of examples 
> along the lines of what we want (will probably be calling from jsp).
>  
> Thanks
>  
> geraint