[Biojava-l] BLAST Networking Questions

[Nancy J. Garnhart]

NCBI provides a stable URL that may be used to perform BLAST searches from
another program (i.e., without interactive use of a Web browser). A
demonstration client (ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/blasturl/) and a README
demonstrate how to access this URL. on 11/6/00 12:03 AM, Vijay Narayanasamy
at vij_ivai@hotmail.com wrote:



the above is copied right out of the BLAST overview page:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/blast_overview.html

Nancy




> Dear all,
> 
> I'm playing with the following project thru this weekend. I would
> like to do the following. I guess some one would have done this or know this
> already.
> 
> I would like to do the following:
> 
> 1. Get the sequence data from the user with a GUI.
> 
> 2. Send the sequence to the BLAST NCBI server
> 
> 3. Get the output from the server
> 
> 4. Present the output (may be in a different form) to the user.
> 
> So the questions are , how to connect with the BLAST server and how to input
> the data in the appropriate database search?
> 
> Is it possible to do with Java Servlets? If so how? Any other suggestions or
> comments?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Vijay
> 
> nvijay@psu.edu
> 
> http://www.personal.psu.edu/vxn115
> 
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