DAS1.6
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DAS 1.6 is, as of 19th October 2010, the latest official version of the DAS specification.
It is the first official version published in several years, and aims to:
- clarify ambiguities in the previous DAS specification
- better reflect how DAS is being used in the community today
- better reflect the use of DAS beyond the genome-centric arena (protein sequences and structures)
- ratify commands from the 1.53E spec
- introduce some ideas inspired by DAS/2
- formally introduce the DAS registry
- migrate from the use of DTDs for describing the XML formats to RelaxNG
The DAS specification is a technical document but with some effort should hopefully be readable and understandable by people without a deep understanding of broader technical issues and other system architectures. That is, it makes only basic assumptions.
The specification was developed via progression through a number of drafts:
Extensions
Several extensions to the 1.6 are proposed by community members. See the DAS1.6E page for more details.
