Difference between revisions of "DAS - Distributed Annotation System"

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"The distributed annotation system (DAS) is a client-server system in which a single client integrates information from multiple servers. It allows a single machine to gather up genome annotation information from multiple distant web sites, collate the information, and display it to the user in a single view. Little coordination is needed among the various information providers." - Wikipedia

parts.mit.edu is a valid DAS server.

The DAS interface to the Registry can provide sequence and feature information about any part in the Registry.

DAS information is available via the HTTP protocol.

(NOTE: the das interface in only operating on parts.mit.edu at this time.)

http://parts.mit.edu/das/dsn will return the XML for the list of DAS services availble on the server.