Hi, The suggestion you made is because you did not know the broad band philosophy of BioXXX.
Bioperl and some other sister projects have originally been based on 'open' philosophy. Object oriented Bioperl is a very significant part of it, however, the general Bioperl encompasses it. (Bioperl is a much broader concept than object oriented Bioerl 1.0.) So, James Tisdall's early 1990's perl libraraies and workbenches were in fact bioperl (his codes were shared and integrated in other bioperl libraries including early version of Bio OO module). Also, intrinsically a lot of people's utilities are part of bioperl. If you create a new way of sharing bio resources, it will be a new aspect of BioXXX, as long as you like the open and free (and not egoistic) idea of BioXXX. The toolset idea is exactly as old as Bioperl OO module and library. For example, one of the first aim of Bioperl project was to always create programs that correspond to each subroutine. For example, if there is a Bio::Blast::Parse., we intended to have an equivalent stand alone tool (such as parse_blast_output.pl) generated automatically and subsequently adjusted for both testing and actual use as a quick tool. This was because when first bioperl developers made OO Bioperl, their working colleagues did not necessarily understand OO concept or the structure of OO Bioperl. There are several sources for such utilies (Script central in www.bioperl.org??). One available (albeit not maintained properly due to lack of time) is at: http://interaction.mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk/Bioperl/Bioinf.html or http://bio.cc/Bioperl/Bioinf.html There used to be a SQL based tools/algorithm/subroutine server called Persus, but I did not have time to keep maintaining it. If anyone is interested in that, let me know. Cheers, Jong > Are there any open source projects that are working towards creating tools > or a suite of applications for BioInformatics rather than creating a > library/SDK? We want to find a group that is interested (or is already) > creating pre-built tools > > BioPerl and BioJava are great libraries. I would think the next step is > using them to create a toolset that allows "users" to get up and running > without having to know how to program. > > Anyone intersted? Or, is anyone already doing this? > > m. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioperl-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://bioperl.org/mailman/listinfo/bioperl-l > _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
