dGDE - Web services client
dGDE uses GDE
to provide a graphic interface to bioinformatics web services such as
SeqHound. Web services are typically accessible through programming
APIs, meaning that you have to write a program to use them. dGDE
gives the use the ability to make ad hoc queries and retrievals of
information, primrily in the form of lists. Lists of data (eg. NCBI
accession numbers, TaxID numbers, GI numbers) can be used to make large
queries. Examples:
- given a list protein GI numbers, return a list of DNA GI
numbers
- given a list of DNA GI numbers, return a list of Taxonomy ID
numbers for all species from which the sequences were derived
- given a list of Taxonomy ID numbers, return the scientific names
To launch dGDE at the Unix command line, type 'dgde'.
dGDE Tutorials
- Interconversion of lists of database identifiers
- Retrieval of data from databases
- Browsing taxonomies
- Generating statistics on datasets