Hi Sebastian. Tochukwu - our newest Jalview developer, has just started looking at creating an msaviewer export. He's not had much experience with working with bioinformatics web resources so I'd really appreciate it if you could give him a brief tour of the msaviewer web examples. It would also be good to know exactly what is considered 'BioJS best practice' for deploying the msaviewer so we can make sure any pages generated by Jalview aren't going to break when BioJS or msaviewer is updated in the future.
From our side, we'd really like it if MSA viewer could provide a link to post data to the www.jalview.org/services/launchApp service so any data in an MSA viewer could be opened in the Jalview Desktop. I've got a feeling the easiest way to do this robustly is to look at creating an HTTP api for the desktop so javascript code on the web page can launch an instance of Jalview that listens on a localhost port, and posts JSON to it. Otherwise, we'd have to work out how to either get Jalview to extract the data from the page where msaviewer is deployed, or stash the data in msaviewer somewhere and then pass the URL to Jalview via it's servlet JNLP launch mechanism so it can load it. Any thoughts/strong opinions about the easiest way to proceed ? Jim. _______________________________________________ Jalview-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/jalview-dev
