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Naturalis implementations of BioVeL services.
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RESTful interface to convert between phyloxml and nexml? #1

Open cboettig opened 10 years ago

cboettig commented 10 years ago

Do you have REST endpoints implemented for this yet? (Mostly opening this issue so I know when to return to https://github.com/ropensci/RNeXML/issues/55 to implement this interface). btw, the whole biovel-nbc project looks awesome!

rvosa commented 10 years ago

Not there yet, soon! We want to publish it on the Naturalis cloud, but it means I still have to provision an instance (with all the dependencies) and get ICT to map the IP address to the scary outside world, ideally with a subdomain name (biovel.naturalis.nl).

rvosa commented 10 years ago

We now have a RESTful service that can fold phylogenetic data and metadata in different formats (newick, nexus, phyloxml...) into a nexml document. However, the arguments to the service are URLs, so that the entire thing can use GET, not POST (...insert esoteric explanation having to do with Taverna and BioVeL services...). This is not ideal because then the client, i.e. R, would need to host its data somewhere where the web service can fetch it from. As a to do item for us, i.e. @hettling and I, maybe we can expand the service to also take directly POST-ed files.