This package contains an implementation of an XMLRPC client to query BCMS 
project servlets. It was particularly written to request annotations from the
services provided by BioTec TU Dresden and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, but
can be easily adopted to query other servlets.

You will need three additional, external libraries to run the actual client. 
Please download them from any of the Apache download mirrors, see 
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/xmlrpc/ . We suggest to get the file 
called xmlrpc-current-bin.tar.gz. Unpack it, and in the lib/ folder, you will
find the libraries xmlrpc-common-3.0.jar,xmlrpc-client-3.0.jar, and
ws-commons-util-1.0.1.jar (the version number might be more recent.)  

The actual call of the client on the console will look like

  java -cp lib/client.jar:lib/xmlrpc-common-3.0.jar:lib/xmlrpc-client-3.0.jar:lib/ws-commons-util-1.0.1.jar bcms.clients.AnnotationClient 1 16341089

where 1 invokes the annotation for gene mention normalization (replace this
with 2 for gene mention tagging, species, and protein-protein interactions) and
16341089 is the requested PubMed ID. For Windows systems, please change the 
call accordingly (semi-colons instead of colons for the classpath).

For documentation, please see http://alibaba.informatik.hu-berlin.de/bcms/ .

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JH 10/03/2007