On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM, James Taylor <james@jamestaylor.org> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com> wrote:
Would a pull request implementing this be acceptable?
Yes. My understanding is that ASN is a completely flexible metaformat, like XML, and so should be under either Text or Data, with appropriate subtypes defined for blast, et cetera.
Thank James, Yes - very like XML, but with the subtlety that ASN.1 comes in text and binary favours (which I presume applies to all the variants, although the binary versions may not be as commonly used for the smaller files). Nicola - do you want to make a pull request to galaxy-central defining ASN.1 text and binary formats (which we can then subclass for the NCBI BLAST+ wrappers)? Or should I? I think the mime-type for the base ASN.1 text format should probably be text/plain based on the NCBI usage patterns. I'm not sure what the mime-type for the base ASN.1 binary format should be (but I don't think it should be chemical/ncbi-asn1-binary). Regards, Peter