On 12/3/08, Jay Hannah <
jay@jays.net> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Rob Townley wrote:
>> Viral, Bacterial and ¿ribosomal? dna are usually in a circle.
>> Normal human, but not mitochondrial DNA is a line.
>> When i did research, most molecular biologists were only interested in
>> circular dna because anything else was too big. Of course the human
>> genetic code has been broken since then. It may not matter at all to
>> your users...
>
> Ya. Whether or not they were looking at circular DNA our GUI would
> flatten it (as many tools do).
>
>> When i taught C++, a geneticist and i toyed with a circular rna
>> explorer like interface using a cross platform gui toolkit application
>> for the Mac and Windows.
>
> Oh? Did it survive? What's the name of that project?
>
>> On a tangent, i was wondering if svg could make it easier to do a
>> circle. Scalable Vector Graphics defined in XML, maybe too much
>> data.
>> Or, using svg to make a line like interface similar to a disk
>> defragging gui.
>
> Well, sidestepping the whole circular thing is my plan, so I don't
> have to deal with it. I'd be very impressed if any SVG renderer could
> scale up to thousands of base pairs without choking horribly. :)
>
> Status update: Mario added an _javascript_y (almost AJAXy) scroll bar
> to our tool:
>
>
http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/CLAB/index.php/RT386
>
> j
>