Hi... I've just put out a new release of the BioJava das-client browser (dated 20010907). You can download it from: http://www.biojava.org/download/das-client/ There are a few instructions at: http://www.ensembl.org/das/client.html There have been quite a few changes under the hood since the last release: - Major work on the network layer (most if it for the good :-). - Much tighter error-handling in the client, including the option to recover from many kinds of fault. - Improvements in the handling of multiple servers in the sequence-chooser. - Uses the latest version of Eric Albert's BrowserLauncher.java, which should work on MacOS X. - Added a `stylesheet guesser' (currently rather simplistic) for servers which don't have stylesheets, or which supply a seriously invalid stylesheet. This release has been tested with the following server implementations: Dazzle (0.9x): (Using either DAS/0.999 or DAS+XFF) Human genome @sanger, plus many annotation servers. Should also work with the Drosophila Dazzle (what's the status of this now?) UCSC: Human genome Wormbase.ORG: C. elegans reference server. It's nice to see a good level of interoperability between these implemetations: congratualations are due all round! Known issues: - The chromosome outliner currently only works with the Ensembl data. However, you no longer need to explicitly turn it off before connecting to UCSC. - Wormbase currently has a stylesheet with several undocumented glyph types. You'll get an error popup warning about this, but if you click `continue', the stylesheet guesser will come up with something reasonable. - The wormbase server has a known issue whereby the `types' command fails messily for large segments. There's currently a workaround for this in the network code, but it's quite high-risk, and I'd like to get rid of it quickly. - Rendering performance isn't as good as I'd like it to be :-). Enjoy! Thomas. _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
