Il giorno mar, 19/02/2013 alle 20.38 +0000, Peter Cock ha scritto: 
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Nicola Soranzo <sora...@crs4.it> wrote:
> > Il giorno mar, 19/02/2013 alle 14.15 +0000, Peter Cock ha scritto:
> >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM, James Taylor <ja...@jamestaylor.org> 
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Peter Cock wrote:
> >> >>I think it could make sense to define generic 'asn1' and
> >> >>'asn1-binary' formats in the Galaxy core (name suggestions
> >> >>welcome)
> >
> > What about
> >
> > extension="asn" type="galaxy.datatypes.data:GenericAsn1"
> >
> > and
> >
> > extension="asnb" type="galaxy.datatypes.binary:GenericAsn1Binary"
> >
> > like GenericXml class?
> 
> Those seem sensible to me as the class names, although I'm
> not so sure about the format names (aka 'extensions' in Galaxy
> terms). I'd prefer to see the '1' in the name for clarity. My
> suggestions of 'asn1' and 'asn1-binary' were based on NCBI usage.

Ok, no problem!

> >> Nicola - do you want to make a pull request to galaxy-central defining
> >> ASN.1 text and binary formats (which we can then subclass for the
> >> NCBI BLAST+ wrappers)? Or should I?
> >
> > If you mean a minimal implementation, I can surely do that. If something
> > more elaborated is needed, then probably you are more qualified than me!
> 
> The current minimal implementation you sent me for BLAST+
> would be an excellent start. Things like data type sniffers etc
> would be a nice to have feature, but can be added later I think.
> And the sooner this gets into the Galaxy core, the sooner we
> can use it in the BLAST+ wrappers :)

Before proceeding on this route, one question: we are going to introduce
a dependency for blast_datatypes/ncbi_blast_plus on a future galaxy
release, is it ok?
I don't think it is possible to express such dependency in a
repository_dependencies.xml file yet.

Best,
Nicola
-- 
Nicola Soranzo, Ph.D.
CRS4
Bioinformatics Program
Loc. Piscina Manna
09010 Pula (CA), Italy
http://www.bioinformatica.crs4.it/

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