EMBOSS: 2nd Workshop. Bruges, Belgium 27th Sept 1999

The 2nd EMBOSS Workshop was held on 23rd September 1999 in Bruges, Belgium. The attendees were delegates to the 13th EMBnet Business Meeting plus some additional guests.

In the morning, Peter Rice and Alan Bleasby presented an overview of the EMBOSS project to date. The slides are available as a separate document. This was followed by a demonstration of the main features of EMBOSS.

In the afternoon the following topics were presented for discussion. The conclusions are inserted in the discussion document, which is included below.

Discussion Topics

Sequences and Databases

1. Input Sequence Formats
2. Output Sequence Formats
3. Sequence Databases
4. Sequence Features

   Command Line Interface

5. ACD Files
6. Command Line Syntax
7. User Prompts
8. Error Messages

   Other User Interfaces

9. Web Interfaces
10. GUI Interfaces

    Applications

11. Existing Applications
12. New Applications
13. User Documentation

    Installing and Beta Testing

14. User Testing
15. Installation
16. Environment Variables
17. Local Data Files

    Developers

18. Technical Support
19. Support for Developers
20. Library Source Files
21. Programming Language Support
22. Software Documentation
23. Graphics Library
24. Functions Returning Objects
25. Perl Support

    Future

26. Future Funding
27. Workshops and Training
28. Publications