[BioRuby] ruby BLAST server (web frontend)

[Pjotr Prins]

The advantages of making it a plugin:

1. easy install for users
2. visibility from the BioRuby project
3. potentially a member of the stable plugin family
4. developers may use your libraries - even if the focus is an
   application

Pj.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:19:37PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> > > could this became a bioruby plugin ?
> >
> > So, then would it become bio-sequenceserver? IMO, it doesn't logically
> > fit in as a BioRuby plugin, as in it doesn't depend on BioRuby. And
> > BioRuby is more like library but SequenceServer is more like an end
> > product. Not sure though :-|.
> >
> 
> To be technical, the branch trying to implement the blast overview graphic
> does rely on BioRuby, since that is a dependency of bio-graphics. But that
> branch hasn't been merged into the main tree yet, and might remain an
> optional thing anyway.
> 
> -- 
> Ben J Woodcroft, BE (Hons)
> 
> PhD Candidate
> Ralph Laboratory
> The University of Melbourne
> Melbourne, Australia
> 
> tel: (+613) 8344 2319
> b.woodcroft at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
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