(thread moved to list) Hi Brad! Brad Chapman wrote: > > One question--what is your ultimate goal for the > database interface? Are you thinking of it as just being a viewer to see > database contents, a viewer with selection options (ie. SQL quieries), or a > complete viewer, selector, data-mining system? Just curious about your > thoughts on this. Well, I was thinking that a database in its simplest form (no query interface, selector, useful viewer or data-mining system) would be represented as a container locus. The query interface, etc., would be added later via locus composition. That way, a person can choose to build his/her own database interface. So, a database container is the smallest possible wrapper for any particular database, with the ability to accept various interfaces upon locus composition. > Also, can you not destroy loci-file quite yet? I have been doing some > coding this week and *may* have a "constructing the command line" thing > working before the weekend is over. Wow, that'd be great. > I would like to be able to take a look > at it and see if it is the kind of thing you were thinking about, before I > go ahead and integrate that stuff with the new loci module. Okay, I'll hold off on the new module until you give me the go-ahead. I'm still making modifications anyway. Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | THE OPEN LAB | | Open Source Bioinformatics | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+