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

[Sylvain Foisy]

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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