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| − | The original version 1 specification, written by Lincoln Stein and Robin Dowell, is the basis for a number of clients and servers. More than 200 DAS/1 servers are currently running worldwide including [http://www.wormbase.org/ WormBase], [http://www.flybase.org/ FlyBase], [http://www.ensembl.org/ Ensembl], [http://www.tigr.org/ TIGR], and [http://genome.ucsc.edu/ UCSC]. | + | The original version 1 specification, written by Lincoln Stein and Robin Dowell, is the basis for a number of clients and servers. More than 200 DAS/1 servers are currently running worldwide including [http://www.wormbase.org/ WormBase], [http://www.flybase.org/ FlyBase], [http://www.ensembl.org/ Ensembl], [http://www.tigr.org/ TIGR], and [http://genome.ucsc.edu/ UCSC]. A number of websites and software applications are based on DAS. |
Revision as of 20:21, 8 December 2006
The DAS/1 Protocol
Contents
About DAS/1
The original version 1 specification, written by Lincoln Stein and Robin Dowell, is the basis for a number of clients and servers. More than 200 DAS/1 servers are currently running worldwide including WormBase, FlyBase, Ensembl, TIGR, and UCSC. A number of websites and software applications are based on DAS.
The DAS/1 specification is currently available in version 1.53 from
http://www.biodas.org/documents/spec.html
Clients
a list of DAS/1 clients here
How to set up a DAS/1 server
In general it is quite easy to set up DAS server. All the server implementations are easy to set up. Most server implementations allow eaasy setup using already provide data-adaptors (e.g. for GFF files). For custom data simple plugins can be written to quickly provide your data via DAS.
DAS server implementations are available in several programming languages:
- Perl
Proserver LDAS
- Java
Dazzle
Publishing and Discovery of DAS/1 sources
For a listing of all available DAS sources please proceed to http://www.dasregistry.org
