[BioRuby] Batch Blasting sequences against NR-NT database

[Pjotr Prins]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:23:17AM -1000, Kevin English wrote:
> This will runs a batch job. I have ruby on rails web interface but all
> my blasting is handled using the DelayedJob plugin.

OK, this means you could benefit from an XML BLAST parser? Right?
Execute BLAST with XML output, parse that, and convert to some
representation online. Or do you want to use HTML output and embed
that in your tool?

> What do you mean by "in a pipe line"?

A pipeline for parallel computing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing

Pj.