Hi Nich, We (UMDNJ) migrated off of GCG several years ago. We found most of our users prefer the command-line interface for shell scripting or a web interface for GUI access from their own computers.
We use EMBOSS-Explorer for the web interface. Its (much) cleaner and faster than SeqWeb ever was and doesn't rely on the server storing user data. We removed our responsibility of backing user data by moving off a server storages system to the user instead. There are no issues with user account management (username/passwords) with this system either. With GCG, we would have at least 1 or 2 user issues per month. Since the switch, I can honestly say our user issues are maybe 1 or 2 per year. If you have any questions about this, feel free to email me, Ryan ---------------- Ryan Golhar, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computational Biologst Informatics Institute at UMDNJ Staffa, Nick (NIH/NIEHS) wrote: > Friends > We are preparing for if ever GCG goes away by seriously pushing EMBOSS > with our users. > This page > http://emboss.sourceforge.net/interfaces/ > lists 15 GUIs. > apparently ColiMate is not an existing GUI to EMBOSS, > but a developement tool. > Please tell me: > Which of the 15 GUIs listed are complete and available? > Which do you think is best? > > Thank you > > Nick Staffa > Telephone: 919-316-4569 (NIEHS: 6-4569) > Scientific Computing Support Group > NIEHS Information Technology Support Services Contract > (Science Task Monitor: Roy W. Reter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences > National Institutes of Health > Research Triangle Park, North Carolina > > > _______________________________________________ > EMBOSS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss > > _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
