[Bioperl-l] Fwd: [blast-announce] New BLAST URL available at the NCBI

[Jason Stajich]

Does anyone want to take a look at how to use these URLs in the  
RemoteBlast module, if the interface is the same?

-jason

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> From: "Mcginnis, Scott (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]" <mcginnis at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
> Date: April 22, 2008 11:35:04 AM PDT
> To: <blast-announce at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
> Subject: [blast-announce] New BLAST URL available at the NCBI
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> New BLAST URL available at the NCBI
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> The NCBI has activated a new URL for BLAST searches at the NCBI:
> http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
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> Searches sent to this URL can take advantage of a larger number of
> machines for searches and the system has a better overall fault
> tolerance.
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> We recommend migration of all BLAST links and bookmarks (e.g.,
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/ and
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/bl2seq/wblast2.cgi) to the new URL.
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> Links on the NCBI and BLAST home pages will start to change in the
> coming weeks.
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> At this point in time the plans are to also maintain the current BLAST
> URL.
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