Launch SBML Online Validator
This project hosts a simple web automation project, that enables SBW modules to send SBML models over to the SBML Online Validator. This is definitely convenient:
If you launch the executable directly, it will open the SBML Online Validator. And if you launch the executable with an SBML file, that file will be send to the Validator.
Downloads are as always hosted by SourceForge, the current version is:
Implementation
Well to be honest, this project really just has a couple of lines of code. All the magic is actually leveraged by a nuget package WatiN.2.1.0. And whilte theoretically it would support a number of browsers, I could only get IE to work reliably for now. Then the magic happens in just one function:
public static void ValidateSBML(string sbml)
{
var browser = new IE("http://sbml.org/validator");
browser.TextField(Find.ByName("rawSBML")).Value =
sbml;
var link =
browser.
Links.FirstOrDefault(s => s.Url.Contains("fromPaste"));
if (link != null)
link.Click();
}
License
This project is open source and freely available under the Simplified BSD license. Should that license not meet your needs, please contact me.
Copyright (c) 2013, Frank T. Bergmann
All rights reserved.
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