Glad to see people interested in the project... However, the project is only about 1 month old (and the mailing list only about 2 weeks old) so we're naturally still in the very early stages. Much of the work being done currently is focussed on parsing/interpreting XML-format information pulled from NCBI's databases (EUtils and, soon after, the online BLAST databases), but a GenBank parser isn't going to be far behind, I suspect. On Saturday 12 April 2003 11:04 am, nicos@itsa.ucsf.edu wrote: > Sorry to sound impatient (and not being hindered by having all the mails > on this list), but - if available - I would use some of the code you seem > to be proposing right away. Together with some friends I am running a > generalized database project geared towards molecular biology labs > (http://phplabware.sf.net). It provides an easy and extensible interface > to an SQL database and plugin code can enhance its functionality. > > For a rudimentary plasmid database, we started writing a very simple > genbank parser > (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/phplabware/phplabware/plug > ins/gb_plugin.php?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup), but I > would reuse (better) code anytime if available. The alternative would > be, of course, to use bioperl, but it would be much nicer and easier to > use php code. > > So, if there is any code and or idea about structuring the objects out > there, make it known so that wok can be done. > > Best, > > Nico