Based on the links in the DAS registry (http://das.sanger.ac.uk/das/pfam) ,
the PFAM das servers appear to be down.  Part, no doubt, of the general
wind-down of DAS registry and DAS services at EBI/Sanger:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/service-news/das-services-to-retire

However, DAS access to PFAM from Jalview happily appears to continue to
work.

I was wondering if Jalview is in fact using the PFAM das servers, or
bypasses them and instead performs a  direct download via the ws/dbsources
code:

src/jalview/ws/dbsources/PfamFull.java
41     return "
http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/family/alignment/download/format?alnType=full&format=stockholm&order=t&case=l&gaps=default&entry=
";
src/jalview/ws/dbsources/PfamSeed.java
43     return "
http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/family/alignment/download/format?alnType=seed&format=stockholm&order=t&case=l&gaps=default&entry=
";

I'm interested because we are planning on serving up our gene family data
(currently stored in InterMine) via DAS to Jalview, and were hoping to
template off the way Jalview accesses PFAM.

Also wondering if you have a recommendation in terms of whether it's worth
bringing up new sources via DAS for integration with Jalview, or do you
expect to provide another similar mechanism (e.g., via REST api's, as
UniProt suggests)


-- 
David M. Goodstein, Ph.D.
Phytozome Group Lead
Plant and Computational Genomics Group
Joint Genome Institute - U.S. Dept. of Energy
Center for Integrative Genomics - UC Berkeley
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