[Pipet Devel] Tools for parsing XML with Python

[Svanberg Liss]

> > In the best possible world, asking for x5559999 should retreive it from
> > genbank the first time, then cache it and transparently refer to the
local
> > copy for every subsequent reference until it expires from the loci
cache. This
> > is where we really need a database, to keep track of the source and
current
> > location of any locus. The database may also serve as primary storage
for
> > localy defined loci, where loci is used here in it's most general form,
> > refering to sequence data, results, programs, user interfaces, etc.
>
> I couldn't have said it better myself.  We want _minimal_ transfer of
> information.

Sounds like you want "virtual distributed memory" instead of CORBA ;)

// Liss