Hi Jim, The announcement of the DAS Registry closure in 2015 is on the website: http://www.dasregistry.org/.
DAS itself is a protocol (see http://www.biodas.org/) and is implemented in a number of DAS servers and systems with DAS service interfaces. There are also many clients for DAS. So providing and consuming DAS services will remain viable. It is just the central hub for DAS service discovery that is going to go away. FWIW I am aware of discussions in the past to integrate the DAS Registry data in to other service registries. I don't know if the DAS Registry are planning to discuss options with other service registries during their phase out period, but for those interested in having a central registry in future it may be worth letting them know about the other service registries you are using and suggest that at least some data about the services could be transferred before the final shutdown of the DAS Registry service. All the best, Hamish On 02/06/14 20:24, [email protected] wrote: > Hi David. > > Sorry if I've set alarm bells ringing! I had an unofficial heads up > regarding these plans, and I understand that official announcements are > currently being finalized. > > I can say, however, that there are at least 12 months of support left, > so this is not an emergency situation. Also, from Jalview's perspective, > we have no plans to drop DAS support from the desktop, and it would be > quite straightforward to replace the current registry URL with one or > more alternative defaults. What I'd like to do is work out what the best > solution will be for Jalview users. > > I anticipate there will be some discussion over at the biodas in the > near future. I'll post a message on this thread as and when I have more > information. > > Jim. > > > Sent from my android device. > > -----Original Message----- > From: "David M. Goodstein" <[email protected]> > To: Jim Procter <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 6:30 PM > Subject: Re: [Jalview-discuss] Do you use the DAS sequence/annotation > tools in Jalview ? > > Jim, > > We had hoped to use DAS to expose our InterMine-based plant genomic > data in Jalview (once we invest the modest effort to build a DAS adaptor > for InterMine) but it sounds like we should rethink that. Is Sanger's > planned phase out of DAS support posted/discussed anywhere else? I > didn't see any notices to that effect at > http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/das/ > > thanks, > > -David > > David M. Goodstein, Ph.D. > Phytozome Team Lead > Eukaryotic Data Systems - Computational and Plant Genomics > U.S. Dept of Energy Joint Genome Institute > 2800 Mitchell Dr. > Walnut Creek, CA USA 94598 > http://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov <http://www.phytozome.net> > >> Jim Procter <mailto:[email protected]> >> June 2, 2014 at 6:42 AM >> Dear jalview-discuss >> >> I'm interested in finding out who uses Jalview's DAS sequence and >> annotation tools. >> >> DAS is the way in which Jalview discovers ENSEMBL and NCBI genome >> sequence and annotation tracks. These are shown in the 'Sequence >> Fetcher' database dialog, and also listed in the 'DAS Settings' tab of >> the 'Sequence Feature Settings' panel in the Desktop. >> >> The reason I ask is that the DAS infrastructure, which is mostly >> maintained by the Sanger Centre in the UK, will no longer be supported >> after May 2015. Up until that time, DAS services may well become >> unreliable. If you rely on certain DAS services, please let us know so >> we can look at alternative ways for Jalview to maintain access to those >> services! >> >> Hear from you soon! >> Jim. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Jalview-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/jalview-discuss > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Jalview-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/jalview-discuss > -- ============================================================ Mr Hamish McWilliam, Web Production, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD United Kingdom URL: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ ============================================================ _______________________________________________ Jalview-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/jalview-discuss
