[Bioperl-l] remote ncbi blast

[gert thijs]

Jason Stajich wrote:
> 
>    A second approach is to try and submit a job via HTTP and use the
> queueing system and checking back periodically to see if a job is
> finished.  This will require some reverse engineering of ncbi blast
> request forms and I suspect would not be the easiest thing in the world so
> I would leave it as a second tier approach.  It is more attractive because
> we can implement a pure perl solution.

I have implemented this type of blastserver already using LWP. I can say that
it was not hard to implement but I have only implemented a limited number of
parameter settings .


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