[Biocorba-l] running Blast standalone windows versio

[Brad Chapman]

Subba:
> > I am fairly new to this project . I am looking forward to have an
> > interface of corba for running blast standalone application 
> > provided by NCBI (windows version). 

Juha:
> There is CORBA interface for blast and other analysis applications.
> Please have a look:
> http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/openBSA/
> 
> Java implementation of analysis server is called AppLab:
> http://corba.ebi.ac.uk/applab/

Also, if you want to connect with the server using a language that doesn't
have all the recent CORBA bells and whistles (valuetypes, etc), you can
try the Novella IDL interface:

http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/novella/

This uses AppLab, which Juha mentioned, so it still needs a little work to
be ported to Windows. I'm running a novella server on a Linux machine at
my lab to provide a CORBA interface to BLAST. There are perl and python
clients available for Novella if you decide to go this route.

I'm also working on (70% done or so), a python server that implements that
Novella interfaces. This won't do all of the great stuff that AppLab
provides, but I hope will be a quick'n dirty way to make commandline
programs available (it'll require some limited knowledge of python to use
though).

Hope this helps,
Brad