> Isn't this what the ACD files in EMBOSS are doing? Perhaps not > reinventing the wheel would be good? Admittedly ACD is not the most > parsable file format to work with, but we have an XML dialect of it > which is (part of Martin's Soaplab). > > Martin - is the XML schema available somewhere? I can't find it from > the webpage... > Yes, it's here: http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/applab/home/metadata/AppLabAnalysis.dtd
And I would add to this: > > I do not think it > > would be too hard to come up with an XML schema for describing how programs > > should be run. > ...that it may not be the high-level science but it is not completely easy either. I have spent long time (starting with the W2H project, through Applab project and now in the Soaplab) to find what are all reasonably possible combinantions of the command-line parameters. So let me know if I can be of any help if you decide to go this way... Regards, Martin -- Martin Senger EMBL Outstation - Hinxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] European Bioinformatics Institute Phone: (+44) 1223 494636 Wellcome Trust Genome Campus (Switchboard: 494444) Hinxton Fax : (+44) 1223 494468 Cambridge CB10 1SD United Kingdom http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~senger _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
