Re: [Gmod-ajax] [personal] Re: [unclassified] javascript client code for BioMoby?

[Scott C. <cai...@gm...>]

(I cc'ed to the GBrowse-AJAX mailing list, since you've offered code
help :-)

Mark,

I agree that I (or anyone else) shouldn't be writing another cgi to sit
on top of a database, I just thought it was funny that my first instinct
was to write something new without thinking too much about alternatives.

Hopefully, BioMoby or DAS javascript clients will provide the types of
data they are after.

Scott


On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 11:07 -0800, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:58 -0500, Scott Cain wrote:
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> > into the database and the funny thing is that I thought I would need to
> > write a cgi from scratch to serve up the type of data they would
> > probably like.  It took me a few hours to remember that GBrowse serves
> > up both biomoby and das without too much work.
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> The LAST thing the world needs is another from-scratch CGI program
> sitting on top of a database!  Good Lord!  Lincoln wrote his
> bioinformatics nation paper years ago and nobody seems to be listening
> to him...  even the people in his own lab ;-)
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> Please Please Please use BioMoby and/or DAS to achieve what you are
> trying to achieve!  Eddie and I will offer whatever help and/or code you
> need with big smiles on our faces :-)
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> Cheers!
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> M
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Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                   cai...@gm...
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