jason zhang wrote:
Hi, peter
Peter Rice wrote:
I am curious ... what does your parser do? We have a few changes in
the new release (extra attributes).
I am coding an application which provides web interface and web service
interface to a set of applications including EMBOSS. If you are
interested, the web interface is here:
http://174.129.249.18:8080/appweb.
Thanks. I gave it a try. looks like a good start.
The application is currently at beta stage. The application parses ACD
file and generates Web interface and Web Service (WSDL). Are the extra
attributes in the new release documented somewhere? I will support them
in my parser if web interface or Web Service are impacted.
There is updated documentation at
http://emboss.sourceforge.net/developers/acd/syntax.html which we
automatically update with new datatypes and attributes (though I now
notice it says version 3.0.0 - I will fix that!)
I see your web interface includes every option ... rather like we do
with the SoapLab web services. A few are not valid in all cases ... for
example, when I run "antigenic" which only accepts protein sequences the
-snucleotide option will break the run and -sprotein is unnecessary. On
balance I find users are happiest when the options are always the same
... but you could consider hiding the less useful ones (sequence input
options, anything in the "advanced" section of ACD ... with some way for
the user to find them and use them. This is in line with the command
line philosophy - even with -option on the command line these are never
prompted for, but they can be used if the user reads the documentation
or studies the -help options.
Let us know if there is anything we can do to help ... for example,
could we run your parser on each new release and send you the results
(that implies running it aftre significant ACD changes and informing you
if we see any problems at that stage).
We can do the same for other ACD parsers if there is interest.
regards,
Peter Rice
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