Current events

BioSapiens DAS workshop, Feb 2007

The Biosapiens Network ( http://www.biosapiens.info/ ) is a project that has a strong commitment to DAS and has been very pro-active in setting up DAS/1 servers (lots of protein data) and developing DAS clients.

Around this EU-wide collaboration they are organizing two DAS-related workshops. They will both be held in the last week of February, location is the Genome Campus in Hinxton / Cambridge, U.K.

workshop 1: DAS client developers workshop Monday 26/2/2007 main organizer: Andreas Prlic for more info please see: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/ap3/dasworkshop.html

workshop 2: BioSapiens Feature Classification (Ontology) Workshop Tuesday, 27/2/2007, Wednesday, 28/2/2007 main organizer: Henning Hermjakob Summary:

We propose to develop a hierarchical classification of DAS feature types based on the OBO format and existing feature ontologies like the Sequence Ontology (SO). This will then be the standard BioSapiens feature classification. This will allow clients to easily implement a meaningful default view for features as well as a user-friendly browser configuration by e.g. only showing feature groups of interest. We also propose to annotate features with default servers, so that e.g. structural features for a protein are only shown from one server in default views.