[Biojava-dev] Biojava Interface to BLAST web/remote services

Andreas Prlic andreas at sdsc.edu
Thu Jun 4 09:12:01 UTC 2009


Hi Sylvain,

Do you mean the URL api for the NCBI Blast searches? Could not find a
link for a WSDL...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/developer.shtml

Andreas


On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Sylvain Foisy
<sylvain.foisy at diploide.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In response to Scooter and from using some of these BLAST implementations in
> the past, I would suggest that we use the QBlast service from NCI first for
> a number of reasons:
>
> - It has been in operation for a long time and its usage is well documented;
>
> - Because of this, there is few chances that it will change;
>
> - Coming from NCBI, it will probably be there for some time to come ;-)
>
> Our friends at BioPerl have been using this technique for a long time now
> with the BioPerl Module:Bio::Tools::Run::RemoteBlast module. We might try to
> emulate at first and of course, do better :-)
>
> Any inputs?
>
> Best regards
>
> Sylvain
>
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