Liftover Webservices/Api Available?

Question

[Boboppie]

My question overlaps this one, but I have a different request.

I'd like to integrate liftover functionality to my webapp instead of reinvent the wheel. Ideally, I can make use of some trustworthy webservices/API which to my knowledge are not available anywhere. Galaxy and UCSC have web-based services but it's not really what I want. Galaxy has not officially announced its API to the public yet, thus either I wait for Galaxy API release or just create a link to those sites and leave the job to the users.

Any better ideas?

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

my two cents: I would implements a web-service (JSON or SOAP/WSDL) in java or wathever you want.

This service would call a local liftOver ( http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/ ) on the server side and would return the data to the client.

[Boboppie]

Thanks Pierre, I also noticed this stand alone program, that could be a solution. But we would consider something lightweight first.