Its the time of year again where I visit Cambridge and learn about the changes in the Distributed Annnotation System. The conference was hosted as always at the Genome Campus. This year there isn't as much changing in the system as much as there is consolidation of existing systems. The talks focused on client development this year and it seems much more focus is on the delivery of data. Many of the talks introduced client libraries and talked about data representation. This is an encouraging direction for the system to take. The scale of some of the new DAS servers is pretty incredible. The enCore project brings together around 20 different bioinformatics groups in Europe. These massive EU framework programs can be pretty scary. However, given the amount of money that they attract they are able to provide services that are not possible for other smaller projects or groups to acheive. One such example is the easyDAS project. They offer free hosting for small projects that want to share data via a DAS server.