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EMBOSS: Project Meeting (Fri 22nd March 2002) |
Alan has been working on the setuid part of Jemboss with Tim.
Tim reported that jemboss works interatively on Solaris and 4 other operating systems. He is continuing to test his jemboss server.
Hugh reported that his xml outputing interface (ajxml.c/h) is now usable. He is working on an output GUI; exploring the use of abstract windows interface native toolkit although other options are possible.
Claude is converting his corba server so that it can run with orbit2 (there were problems with orbit1). He is tidying his code, and working on threading code to enable multiple users of the server.
Gary has embossified (implemented from scratch) Bill Pearsons mrtrans program. The application ('tranalign') takes a set of nucleic acid and protein sequences and aligns the nucleic acid sequences (by gap insertion) to the protein sequences. It has not been committed yet.
Waqas has been debugging funky (application for the generation of a database of functional sites in protein structures from residue contact information).
Jon is continuing with his overhaul of the protein structure applications, including (i) Purification of code, (ii) Testing of applications & emboss test data, (iii) Building databases, ironing out resultant bugs, (iv) Documentation of applications and library code, (iv) Manual on how to use the applicaitons together.
Thomas is working on parsers and viewers for graphics output in SRS.
Peter has worked through bug reports and the query and access methods:
NBRF sequence reading trims last character only if it is '*'
to catch cases where SRS reports the sequence as 'plain'
GCG database text has the spaces in ". ." strings removed.
Database entry text and sequence saved for binary formats (GCG, BLAST)
for use by entret and other applications
dbiblast indices with split databases (formatdb -v) fixed for reading
all entries (was only reading the first file)
dbiblast and dbigcg indices support exclude and file definitions
to create database subsets
Database include and file definitions can use the simple filename.
In some cases the full path was used. Database files are checked
both with and without the directory path for back-compatibility.
srswww access method created to query a remote web server.
Preferred to using URL access as SRS queries can be built
Sequence objects include the SeqVersion, Keyword list and Taxonomy
list.
SeqVersion (EMBL SV line, GenBank VERSION line) is used in preference
to accession number where available. Can also be read in FASTA
and NCBI formats. Where only the SeqVersion is available, the
accession number is generated.
USA queries implement searches by SV, DES, ORG and KEY. These work
with SRS access methods (SRS, SRSFASTA, SRSWWW) by building SRS
queries, and with direct access (simple file reading) by
testing the sequence object.
Key and Org queries are for full keywords (including spaces) and
for each level of the taxonomy.
Des queries, if the access method does not provide a mechanism,
(if the access method does not have its own index) are applied to
words within the description. Words start with a letter or number,
and end with a letter or number. SRS typically does the same, but
allows a single quote at the end. This catches words such as 3'
and 5' but is a problem with some quoted text.
Queries for ID ACC SV DES ORG and KEY are valid for all file
access methods, including URL, external, cmd, app, file and by
default any new method added. If the internal query data is not
flagged by the access method (to show the database has been
queried) the sequence object is automatically tested.
Missing description, keyword, organism, or seqversion fields cause
queries to fail if they are used on inappropriate data.
Known problem: Queries of dbiflat (etc.) databases for SV DES ORG
and KEY will need new index files.
New database definition token 'fields' with a list of indexed fields
can be set to 'sv des org key' for SRS databases.
USAs check the query field against the database 'fields'
definition. ID and ACC are always allowed. dbname:name still
searches ID and ACC (no change from previous version)
USAs with a filename can include the new query fields. The syntax is
filename:field:query for example empro.dat:id:eclaci (the extended
syntax is because empro.dat-id:eclaci looks like a filename ending
in -id)
Next meeting to be held at 10.00 on Friday 5th April, HGMP