[Biophp-dev] biophp status

[Nico Stuurman]

> I was wondering what the status of biophp was?

As far as I know biophp is in a very rudimentary stage.  There is some 
code written by Serge (with additions by Sean and me) that still need a 
lot of work to become a easily usable library.  Then there is also 
still the problem of two code bases  (one at Sourceforge, one at 
bioinformatics.org, the second one basically contains the first with 
some additional material).   It is really time to for biophp to get 
organized...

> I am the project manager for TCDB, a membrane transport protein 
> classification database.
> http://tcdb.ucsd.edu
> beta site is http://mtpas.ucsd.edu
> I have written many classes and functions dedicated to the analysis of 
> membrane proteins.

Great, what language did you use?  I'd be interested to discus how you 
set up your database structure, not in the least since I might start a 
database system for classifying coiled-coil proteins.

> With a little hacking, I can get my functions to work with BioPHP.
> Is that something that you would be interested in?

That would be great.  For now, it would be best to check-out the cvs 
from bioinformatics.org and add your contributions there.  Work is 
currently being done in the 'genephp' directory.

Best,


Nico