in reply to compress data to pass in url?

URI::Escape will handle the appropriate URL encoding, but having to do so seems a bit overkill ... have you looked into bioperl (in particular, Bio::Graphics) yet? Lots of wheels ready to go in that package.

jeffa

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Re: (jeffa) Re: compress data to pass in url?
by glwtta (Hermit) on Jan 17, 2003 at 17:23 UTC
    yes, I do use bioperl extensively (it's a life-saver infact), but in this case the actual image generation is trivial and not really biology specific.