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EMBOSS: Project Meeting (Nov 8th 1999) |
File closing needs to check for the "getz" or any other forked process ID.
Ian is converting Will Gilbert's editor MSE, adding ACD and sequence reading and writing function calls, plus conversion from VMS to Unix. MSE will be implemented as an associated application under EMBASSY.
As part of the MSE implementation, AJAX graphics have to be separated from the rest of AJAX to make a library independent of PNG and other graphics libraries so that linking non-graphics associated packages is simple.
There are some problems running MSE on SGI machines which are still being investigated.
MSE is implemented under a new embassy directory. Use "cvs checkout -P" to get it.
Installation has been modified to add makefiles for the data directories so that they are included in "make install" processing.
EMBOSS is now available from the Sanger Centre anonymous CVS server for anyone to download (read only) the full development tree.
David Martin (EMBnet Norway) has reported problems with SuSe Linux. He is reinstalling.
Gary has modified sequence ranges to accept "@filename" syntax which reads a file of start and end positions, plus simple documentation (any non-numeric text).
Syco now includes uncommon codon usage.
Applications still need feature output implemented, probably as a separate (optional) output file as the text reports are now in production use by some groups. Peter will write some sample applications to build and modify feature tables.
Richard would like an application that could read features (e.g. GFF) and dump out selected features (e.g. CDS)
Peter has modified URL processing to use HTTP 1.0 and pass the server host address and port number, which is required by HTTP 1.1 virtual servers such as the EBI's SRS server. HTTP 1.1 could be implemented, but needs additional processing as the results come back in "chunks" instead of plain text.
"transeq" writes peptide sequences, currently named as "sequence+frame" or "sequence-frame". This has caused problems with generating file names from sequence names. The preferred solution is to use "seqname_1" to "seqname_6".
Richard has some time to work on EMBOSS again and will try the Windows NT build.
Catherine Letondal will be in Hinxton on December 17th for the CCP11 software developers meeting.
Richard would like an acedb interface to EMBOSS so that ACEDB can run EMBOSS applications, possibly as an EMBOSS class within ACEDB.
Peter is away on Monday 15th. Next meeting Monday 22nd November, 11:00am, usual place.