[BioRuby] rails blast server

[Trevor Wennblom]

Hi Yannick,

It's pretty straight-forward. Put your sequences into a blast database as usual with formatdb. Setup a page in Rails with a textarea or file upload submit form. Take the submitted text / sequence, use it to query against your blast database by saving the input to a file and running the commandline tool (such as blastn), and finally return the file containing results.

This is assuming your queries run quickly since the page render will be delayed until blast is complete. If you need to search against a large database there's a bit more work to it.