At one point IU and Cambridge both had services based on OpenBabel. I think the IU services are still up. They were originally written as SOAP services (blech!) but may have been updated to REST interfaces
http://www.chembiogrid.org/projects/proj_ws_all.html On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Christian Meisenbichler <[email protected]> wrote: > Is someone interested in creating an openbabel web service? > > Let me explain what I mean by that. I Just recently got convinced by > the idea of software as a service and the practical elegance of > knitting together various parts of software by http requests. > Openbabel as a converter tool would just be perfect for such a > service. > > The service would accept a http post request with the file to convert > as post data. The source and target file format is encoded in the URI > and the request returns the converted file. > > As there are already python bindings, a simple python http request > handler that provides this service is something I would quite like to > implement. Question is if there is someone who would be interested to > host such a service? Maybe even as a part of the open babel project? > > Motivation of course is that one sometimes wants to use openbabel > functionality but it is for some reason impossible or impractical to > install it or deal with the dependencies. In such an situation the > script or application must only be able to issue an http request. I > think thats utterly elegant. > > What do you think? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > OpenBabel-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss > -- Rajarshi Guha NIH Chemical Genomics Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss
