Re: [Gmod-ajax] Question about exact align between different tracks at high resolution

[Ian H. <ih...@be...>]

I should also add that there's no reason someone couldn't port the
essential Perl scripts to Ruby. It's not something we plan to maintain
from here, but I think we'd all love to see that, and could offer
advice/help.

Ian Holmes wrote:
> Hi George,
> 
> Thanks for your interest in & kind comments about JBrowse.
> 
> Regarding your question, I'm afraid that currently we don't have any
> plans to port or maintain parallel implementations of the server
> components in other languages. The idea of a JavaScript implementation
> of the server algorithms is interesting, and a Ruby implementation would
> certainly be cool too. However JBrowse is a descendant of GBrowse and as
> such, will probably continue to use at least some Perl components for a
> while (if only to ensure a smooth GBrowse->JBrowse migration path).
> 
> It isn't too hard to call Perl scripts from Ruby, though -- right? Would
> there be any significant problem with doing that (other than having to
> install BioPerl)?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Ian
> 
> George Githinji wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Thanks for the efforts in developing Jbrowse.
>> Please I use  BioRuby for the bulk of my work, At the moment i would like to
>> embed a jbrowse viewer on a web page for a particular project I am are
>> working on.  Is there a pure Javascript Jbrowser library/ plugin that i can
>> use for visualizing GFF files?
>>
>> Do I have to install bioperl? Are there plans to make Jbrowse bio-language
>> agnostic?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
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