Hi Andy, Congratulations on your decisions to migrate from GCG to EMBOSS. We did it about a 2 yrs ago because of SeqWeb issues with different web browsers. We haven't looked back since. If you would like to see our installation, go to http://emboss.umdnj.edu/emboss.
We were using GCG for at least 5+ years (before I started working here). I discovered EMBOSS about 3 yrs ago and prefer it over GCG for many reasons. We didn't make the transition until we found a suitable web interface as the majority of our users prefer the web interface. In the end, we chose EMBOSS-Explorer - it's a simple, clean interface compatible with a wide range of browsers (a severely lacking feature with SeqWeb). I noticed you require server-side storge, EMBOSS-Explorer requires nothing on the server side not even user accounts, the users store everything locally on their machines. This reduced our maintainence needs for backups. We find it to be a better solution than maintaining central storage for this type of data. I would recommend you tell your users to get their data out of SeqWeb. You can hold onto the storage in case anyone doesn't. There is a hidden file called .gcgwebprojects in /seqweb/config or something like that, that associates users with projects, so if you have to, you can go back at a later date to retrieve data for users. We've only had to do this a handful of times. The files are stored in text format, FASTA format I think. Good luck! -- Ryan Golhar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Informatics Institute of UMDNJ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Fant Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EMBOSS] Web Interfaces to Emboss Tools Afternoon all, After a particularly bad run of defective data DVDs from Accelrys, I have decided that I want to make a full-court press to convince the decision makers that we could spend the money we are spending on that subscription and license on other priorities and migrate our core bioinformatics service to Emboss. I have two primary questions related to this. First, much of our user community is using SeqWeb as their interface to GCG. I know that there are a few Emboss web interfaces out there, and I would like to get feedback from people that have deployed them to wide-ranging production about their experiences. The ability to store sequence data and results on the server side is considered to be an essential feature, which appears to rule out some of the leading contenders. Also, does anyone have any experience/scripts/warnings for pulling the corpus of data stored in SeqWeb out into a format easily accessible by Emboss and it's various web interfaces? I'd rather not go in and manually try to extract it if there is a better way. Thanks in advance. If there is demand, I'll summarize for the list. (My apologies for the nom de plume. I don't want to telegraph my plans to managers or vendors until I have all my ducks in a row) _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
