Don, this is nice to see.  I suggest you add a link to LuceGene to
http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/PoweredBy so we don't lose the
link.

Otis

--- Don Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> LuceGene release 1.4  is available now at
> http://www.gmod.org/lucegene/
> and http://eugenes.org/gmod/lucegene/
> 
> LuceGene is an open-source document/object search and retrieval
> system
> specially tuned for bioinformatics text databases and documents.  It
> is
> similar in concept to the commercial SRS package (Sequence Retrieval
> System). LuceGene is written in Java, built with the open-source
> Lucene
> package [http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/]
> 
> This release includes an easy to use demonstration. Pop it into a
> Tomcat
> web server and run.
> 
> LuceGene adds these bioinformatics methods to Lucene:
> 
>  * Indexing adaptors for formats such as XML, PDF Documents,
>  Biosequences, Spreadsheets, HTML, and others, with fine tuning by
> data
>  field.
> 
>  * Configurations for bio-data include UniProt/Swiss-Prot, Fasta and
>  GenBank sequences, BIND protein interactions, BLAST outputs,
>  Medline and others.
> 
>  * Support for batch-list look-ups and searches by ID, gene names,
> etc.
> 
>  * Web interface with paged results, batch downloads, search
>  refinement and search-linking among data libraries.
> 
>  * Web Services support with a SOAP interface.
> 
>  * Output support for data-field selection and formats such as
>  Spreadsheet, XML, HTML, and others.
> 
> It can take as little as a few hours engineering time to add new
> databank parsing, making it a cost-effective way to use many
> bioinformatics data sets.
> 
> LuceGene is speedy with big data sets: indexing and searching the
> UniProt library of 1.7 million sequences with LuceGene is comparable
> to
> using SRS. Gene Annotation object search and retrieval with LuceGene
> is
> 10x to 20x faster than using a Postgres Chado database.
> 
> -- Don Gilbert
> Genome Informatics Lab
> Indiana University, Bloomington IN
> http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/gil/
> 
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