[ensembl-dev] searchin on ensembl with perl API

[Dan Bolser]

It seems like it would make sense for the web team to make the Lucene
search API available externally. That way people could build third
party applications to search EnsEMBL.

For (very general) example:
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/openness-or-how-do-you-design-for-the-loss-of-control.html-0


2011/7/19 Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com>:
> 2011/7/19 Bert Overduin <bert at ebi.ac.uk>:
>> We don't use the Perl API for this, but the Lucene search engine
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucene).
>
> Hmmm... then do you provide some way to make this search? I saw a few
> perl modules implementing it but I would still require an index.
>
> 2011/7/19 Animesh Sharma <sharma.animesh at gmail.com>:
>> Hi Carnë,
>> Sorry for misunderstanding your question. Coming to you problem, I am
>> unaware of API based call, so I go the ugly way of LWP and parsing the html
>> file :(
>> Regards,
>> Animesh
>
> I was trying to avoid such ugly things since I was hoping to get a
> reliable application for the rest of the lab but if there's no other
> solution... do you already have the code to do this? Or do you mean
> that's how you would do it if you had to?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Carnë
>
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