Re: [Biojava-l] SQL-backed persistent Biojava sequence/feature objects

2001-08-06 Thread David Huen
I've had a look of the schema and it does seem very reminiscent of EMBL/Genbank files in the type of features it captures and the general way they are laid out. I think it is also possible to graft on hierarchical features onto this schema in the manner Thomas indicated - use a separate table to

Re: [Biojava-l] SQL-backed persistent Biojava sequence/feature objects

2001-07-30 Thread David Huen
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Thomas Down wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:48:57PM +0100, Ewan Birney wrote: > > > > David, have you looked at the BPDB schema? How welll do you > think it meets your needs? > I haven't looked at the BPDB schema yet, I'll try to do that this evening. To save me naviga

Re: [Biojava-l] SQL-backed persistent Biojava sequence/feature objects

2001-07-30 Thread Thomas Down
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:48:57PM +0100, Ewan Birney wrote: > > > in BioJava. For instance, a Java-centric schema could get > > away with tricks like serializing any datatypes it didn't > > explicitly understand (I'm thinking particularly of > > Annotation-bundle data here). That sort of thing

Re: [Biojava-l] SQL-backed persistent Biojava sequence/feature objects

2001-07-30 Thread Thomas Down
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:02:11PM +0100, Ewan Birney wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, David Huen wrote: > > > a) choice of DB > > I've made a start on implementing the above and using Postgresql > > for the purpose as it appears to be the only "free" database with > > transactions implemented. I f

Re: [Biojava-l] SQL-backed persistent Biojava sequence/feature objects

2001-07-30 Thread Mathew Traini
Hi, > I've made a start on implementing the above and using Postgresql > for the purpose as it appears to be the only "free" database with > transactions implemented. I figure we will want transactions as we will > either want the sequences/features completely instantiated or not at all. Later

[Biojava-l] SQL-backed persistent Biojava sequence/feature objects

2001-07-30 Thread David Huen
a) choice of DB I've made a start on implementing the above and using Postgresql for the purpose as it appears to be the only "free" database with transactions implemented. I figure we will want transactions as we will either want the sequences/features completely instantiated or not at all. The