Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-26 Thread E.L. Willighagen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 February 2004 20:44, Daniel Zaharevitz wrote: > On Feb 24, 2004, at 6:42 PM, Miguel Howard wrote: > > DanZ wrote: > >> it seems that CML and loadInLine > >> are not yet supported. Is this true and if so what are the issues? > > > > CML

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-25 Thread Miguel Howard
DanZ wrote: > Our web pages get ~1.5 million hits/year from ~40K disitinct IP > addresses. OK, broad user base running a wide variety of systems. > We recognize that using CML (and > XML in general) can have resource and performance issues, but I haven't > seen any other technology that > will get

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-25 Thread Daniel Zaharevitz
On Feb 24, 2004, at 6:42 PM, Miguel Howard wrote: DanZ wrote: it seems that CML and loadInLine are not yet supported. Is this true and if so what are the issues? CML === CML is probably a good thing for Egon to work on. We have code to support it in previous versions of Jmol and in the CDK (Chemis

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-24 Thread Miguel Howard
DanZ wrote: > it seems that CML and loadInLine > are not yet supported. Is this true and if so what are the issues? CML === CML is probably a good thing for Egon to work on. We have code to support it in previous versions of Jmol and in the CDK (Chemistry Development Kit). One of the major barrie

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-23 Thread E.L. Willighagen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 February 2004 15:27, Daniel Zaharevitz wrote: > On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 04:09 PM, Daniel Zaharevitz wrote: > > Our software development efforts (See > > http://dtp.nci.nih.gov/dw/dw_main.html) have reached the point where > > we ar

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-23 Thread Daniel Zaharevitz
On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 04:09 PM, Daniel Zaharevitz wrote: Our software development efforts (See http://dtp.nci.nih.gov/dw/dw_main.html) have reached the point where we are likely to get more involved in the current JMol efforts and we want to make our efforts be as broadly useful as pos

Re: Fwd: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-11 Thread E.L. Willighagen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dan, thank you very much for your interesting emails. I'm sorry that I had not replied to your first email, but will try to make up now. On Tuesday 10 February 2004 21:40, Daniel Zaharevitz wrote: > > Certainly if you felt that there was a place

Fwd: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-10 Thread Daniel Zaharevitz
I think I sent this only to Miguel and I meant it to go to the list as well Begin forwarded message: On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 05:09 PM, Miguel Howard wrote: First of all let me point out that this is especially timely considering the new NIH roadmap initiatives (See http://nihroadmap.ni

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-09 Thread Miguel Howard
> First of all let me point out that this is > especially timely considering the new NIH roadmap initiatives (See > http://nihroadmap.nih.gov). The particularly applicable group is the > Molecular Libraries and Imaging one. I am very interested in having NIH use Jmol as part of this effort. [snip

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-09 Thread Daniel Zaharevitz
On Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: [lots of stuff deleted] Great. I'm guessing that this can be program independent and that anyone can access this nameserver whatever the platform and OS, providing they have a WWW library of equivalent (obviously this is bui

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-05 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Sunday 01 February 2004 10:54, Miguel Howard wrote: > > CAS is short for CAS rigestry number... it's a simple index used for a > > very big database of published structures, I think... see: > > > > http://www.cas.org/EO/regsys.html > > This is *very* helpful. > As I understand it, this is the '

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-04 Thread Daniel Zaharevitz
On Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 07:19 AM, Egon Willighagen wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2004 10:54, Miguel Howard wrote: CAS is short for CAS rigestry number... it's a simple index used for a very big database of published structures, I think... see: http://www.cas.org/EO/regsys.html This is *v

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-02 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
This sounds great. Shouldn't be too difficult. We have parsed a number of pages for chemical content. And I know that Henry has. So we could put together a collaborative list of sites that we can scrape for chemistry. The results would all be in CML with appropriate metadata. This would solve m

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-02 Thread E.L. Willighagen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 February 2004 10:17, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > At 22:23 01/02/2004 +0100, Egon Willighagen wrote: > >dadml://pdb/?1CRN > > > >or dadml://any/pdbid?1CRN > > > >The second will try any mirror that can return information based on the > >pdbi

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-02 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
At 22:23 01/02/2004 +0100, Egon Willighagen wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2004 17:28, Egon Willighagen wrote: > dadml://nist/cas?50-00-0 > > This would allow things in Java like: > > URI uri = new URI("dadml://nist/cas?50-00-0") > String protocol = uri.getScheme(); > String service = uri.getAuthorit

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-01 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Sunday 01 February 2004 17:28, Egon Willighagen wrote: > dadml://nist/cas?50-00-0 > > This would allow things in Java like: > > URI uri = new URI("dadml://nist/cas?50-00-0") > String protocol = uri.getScheme(); > String service = uri.getAuthority(); > String index = uri.getPath(); > String query

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-01 Thread Miguel Howard
> This would allow things in Java like: > > URI uri = new URI("dadml://nist/cas?50-00-0") > String protocol = uri.getScheme(); > String service = uri.getAuthority(); > String index = uri.getPath(); > String query = uri.getQuery(); Good idea ... let Java do the parsing. Miguel --

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-01 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
At 16:40 01/02/2004 +0100, Egon Willighagen wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2004 13:22, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > At 06:26 31/01/2004 -0500, timothy driscoll wrote: > >at 9.26a EDT on 2004 January 29 Thursday Peter Murray-Rust said: > > > At 00:06 29/01/2004 +0100, Miguel Howard wrote: > > > >I am lo

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-01 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
At 12:01 31/01/2004 +0100, Miguel Howard wrote: > I am sure you know that Egon has done something like this in CDK/JCP. While I was aware of the RSS and plug-in work, I did not make the association between the two ... Thanks! > So it's important to keep consistency... Agreed. > I favour the use

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-01 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Sunday 01 February 2004 13:22, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > At 06:26 31/01/2004 -0500, timothy driscoll wrote: > >at 9.26a EDT on 2004 January 29 Thursday Peter Murray-Rust said: > > > At 00:06 29/01/2004 +0100, Miguel Howard wrote: > > > >I am looking for a standard syntax for pulling data from r

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-01 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Sunday 01 February 2004 00:34, Egon Willighagen wrote: > Alternatively, we could do: > > dadml://nist/cas/50-00-0 > > where the syntax is as follows: > > PROTOCOL://SERVICE[/INDEXTYPE]/INDEX > > where the index type is optional... > > think of it as a kind of subdirectory in HTTP or FTP URL's...

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-01 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
At 06:26 31/01/2004 -0500, timothy driscoll wrote: at 9.26a EDT on 2004 January 29 Thursday Peter Murray-Rust said: > At 00:06 29/01/2004 +0100, Miguel Howard wrote: > > > >I am looking for a standard syntax for pulling data from remote databases. > >The idea is that we would store the exact URL o

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-01 Thread Miguel Howard
>> Q: Are there other large, publically available databases on the web? > > Yes, see: > > http://www.woc.sci.kun.nl/super.xml > > This lists 9 databases... All links refer to URL+database.xml, e.g. > > http://www.woc.sci.kun.nl/database.xml for the first entry... Very good. >> Q: Is this 'NSC' nu

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-01 Thread Miguel Howard
> CAS is short for CAS rigestry number... it's a simple index used for a > very big database of published structures, I think... see: > > http://www.cas.org/EO/regsys.html This is *very* helpful. As I understand it, this is the 'registry' only. I see that the cactus database (http://cactus.nci.n

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-02-01 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Saturday 31 January 2004 22:54, timothy driscoll wrote: > > > DADML has support for any syntax for any service... But maybe we > > > should just restrict to one index type... experience has shown that > > > this ok. CAS is for small molecules widely accepted... > > > > Alternatively, we could do

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread Miguel Howard
> where the syntax is as follows: > > PROTOCOL://SERVICE[/INDEXTYPE]/INDEX I should have read ahead :-) Miguel --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the bread

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread Miguel Howard
>> unless 'pdb' in the above context refers to the actual db from whence >> the structure cometh? > > My intention was indeed that pdb was denoting the actual PDB database... > The DADML protocol would know how to resolve it into a URL and as such > into a HTTP request... I agree. - //pdb/ was i

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread timothy driscoll
at 12.34a EDT on 2004 February 01 Sunday Egon Willighagen said: > On Sunday 01 February 2004 00:30, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > On Saturday 31 January 2004 22:14, timothy driscoll wrote: > > > at 4.15p EDT on 2004 January 31 Saturday Miguel Howard said: > > > > > maybe it could better be then: >

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Sunday 01 February 2004 00:30, Egon Willighagen wrote: > On Saturday 31 January 2004 22:14, timothy driscoll wrote: > > at 4.15p EDT on 2004 January 31 Saturday Miguel Howard said: > > > > maybe it could better be then: > > > > > > > > dadml://pdb/1crn > > > > > > > > where DADML is they wat thi

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Saturday 31 January 2004 22:14, timothy driscoll wrote: > at 4.15p EDT on 2004 January 31 Saturday Miguel Howard said: > > > maybe it could better be then: > > > > > > dadml://pdb/1crn > > > > > > where DADML is they wat things are resolved, and pdb the service... > > > > I like this *much* bett

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread timothy driscoll
at 4.15p EDT on 2004 January 31 Saturday Miguel Howard said: > > maybe it could better be then: > > > > dadml://pdb/1crn > > > > where DADML is they wat things are resolved, and pdb the service... > > I like this *much* better. > > Miguel > how about using 'mol' instead of 'pdb'? it's a litt

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread Miguel Howard
> I don't think Peter is refering to the RSS work... JCP also has a system > called DADML: database access definition markup language... I wasn't aware of that. > It uses XML files to download from databases, and is very well suited > for downloading from databases like the PDB... > > See CDK's

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:01, Miguel Howard wrote: > > I am sure you know that Egon has done something like this in CDK/JCP. > > While I was aware of the RSS and plug-in work, I did not make the > association between the two ... Thanks! I don't think Peter is refering to the RSS work... JCP a

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread Miguel Howard
> I like the URL syntax, too. the only trouble I can see is if a > structure DB changes the syntax for remote apps accessing their DB. Regardless of what syntax we choose (even if it looks like a URL), we will pull out the key components and substitute them into a pattern to construct the 'true'

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread timothy driscoll
at 9.26a EDT on 2004 January 29 Thursday Peter Murray-Rust said: > At 00:06 29/01/2004 +0100, Miguel Howard wrote: > > > >I am looking for a standard syntax for pulling data from remote databases. > >The idea is that we would store the exact URL outside the scripts (and in > >a configuration file)

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread Miguel Howard
> I am sure you know that Egon has done something like this in CDK/JCP. While I was aware of the RSS and plug-in work, I did not make the association between the two ... Thanks! > So it's important to keep consistency... Agreed. > I favour the use of symbolic addresses which are set in configu

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-31 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
At 00:06 29/01/2004 +0100, Miguel Howard wrote: >> Q: Do you think that there is value in specifying a 'standard' syntax >> for pulling files from the pdb? Something like: 'load [pdb]1ezn' >> >> That way, you could externalize the location of the server (and the >> specific URL) and get it out of t

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-30 Thread Miguel Howard
> how about > > load someID(someDB,someFlag) > > instead? I think of the ID as the central element here, and I'd like to > be able to say simply > > load someID > > and have Jmol use the default database from its pref file. Well, you have an interesting point. But I am concerned that it would res

Re: [Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-30 Thread timothy driscoll
at 12.06a EDT on 2004 January 29 Thursday Miguel Howard said: > >> Q: Do you think that there is value in specifying a 'standard' syntax > >> for pulling files from the pdb? Something like: 'load [pdb]1ezn' > >> > >> That way, you could externalize the location of the server (and the > >> specifi

[Jmol-developers] Standard syntax for pulling from remote databases

2004-01-28 Thread Miguel Howard
>> Q: Do you think that there is value in specifying a 'standard' syntax >> for pulling files from the pdb? Something like: 'load [pdb]1ezn' >> >> That way, you could externalize the location of the server (and the >> specific URL) and get it out of the RasMol script. >> >yes - esp if there is also