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/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]