Other Efforts, continued
•Hexacoral – biggest user in OBIS; uses DiGIR (D.G. Fautin, et al.)
•DiGIR – Distributed Generic Information Retrieval.  Uses XML protocol to get the data.  Extends XML to do queries.  Uses php software package to execute the code.  Supports  14 or 15 databases, e.g SQL based.  Three options for JGOFS: export to flat file, export to MySQL, or write own perl script to interface directly to DiGIR (ZooGene -> OBIS)