No problem! I've just tried it again and ended up with a pdf file that had no content. In my browser, the url became:
http://prometheus.frii.com//open-bio-database.pdf cheers Tony At 10:18 AM 4/02/2002 +0000, Thomas Down wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 06:26:14AM +1000, Tony Obermeit wrote: > > I'm interested in SequenceDB and a port to MS-Access and Oracle, I've got > > years of Oracle experience and am happy to review what would be necessary > > to get it working in either of those environments. I was not able to > > download the draft document at > > http://www.technophage.com/open-bio-database.pdf The document was > > blank. > >Could you try it once more, just in case there was a transient >server problem? I've just re-downloaded it and didn't have >any trouble. > >(If you're still having trouble, I can mail you a copy or >something). > > > At the moment I'm new to BioJava and have only just joined the > > list. Do I need to join any other area of BioJava to access the cvs > > SequenceDB code? > >No, the BioSQL SequenceDB implementation is part of the main >CVS module: biojava-live. If you're going to be checking much >code into the CVS repositiory, you'll want to contact either >myself or David to get an account created. But if you >want to look at the code and experiment with it, you can just >follow the instructions at: > > http://cvs.biojava.org/ > >The BioSQL code can be found in the package: > > org.biojava.bio.seq.db.biosql > >The complication with BioSQL is that the current schemas don't >yet have a proper home on the web. As a /very/ temporary >measure, I've placed them in the BioJava download area: > > http://www.biojava.org/download/ > >But please don't expect them to stay there for too long. Note >that the mysql version is currently `authoratative'. PostgreSQL >was generated by an automatic script. > > >I'd be very interested in seeing ports to other databases. The >job ought to be pretty simple: > > - Edit the MySQL schema so that it loads into your database. > > - Do a quick check through the SQL in the code to make sure > it doesn't do anything really stupid. If it does, please > let me know -- I'd like to work out a set of queries which > will work in as many popular databases as possible. > > - Implement the DBHelper interface for your database. This > is the database-abstraction layer I'm using for the BioSQL > code. Right now, it just has one method, which is used to > discover auto-generated IDs after an INSERT query. I don't > have any Oracle experience myself, but I showed the interface > to someone who does, and he said it would be no trouble > to implement. > > >Let me know how this goes! > > Thomas. _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
