That's really really nice! Lincoln
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Thomas Down <[email protected]> wrote: > As some of you already know, I've been experimenting recently with a > web-based DAS client for genomic data. It's still in > a unashamedly prototypical state (in particular, some of the popups and > configuration stuff is outright clunky, and we know it!), but we're > starting > to find it quite useful, and would be interested to receive more feedback. > So if you're curious, you can try it here: > > http://www.biodalliance.org/human/ncbi36/ > > It's a fully-fledged DAS/1.53 client (with a few bits of DAS/1.6, and > hopefully rather more coming soon), but has one major caveat: since it's > pure Javascript code running in your web browser, there are limitations to > which servers it can connect to. Specifically, it will only work with DAS > servers that implement the W3C cross-origin resource sharing model (which > has been discussed on this list before, but drop me a line if you've got > any > questions). What does this mean in practice? If you're adding datasources > from the registry, things are simple because Dalliance will only allow you > to add CORS-enabled sources (a huge thanks to Jonathan Warren for adding > some support for this in the registry). If you run your own DAS servers > and > don't list them in the registry, you'll need to check for CORS > compatibility > yourself. The latest versions of Proserver and Dazzle should both be okay. > > All comments, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome! > > Thomas Down. > _______________________________________________ > DAS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/das > -- Lincoln D. Stein Director, Informatics and Biocomputing Platform Ontario Institute for Cancer Research 101 College St., Suite 800 Toronto, ON, Canada M5G0A3 416 673-8514 Assistant: Renata Musa <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ DAS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/das
