blast frontend?

[Guy Bottu]

from : BEN

Peter Rice wrote:
> Not yet ... but I did make plans some time back to integrate 3rd party
> applications under an ACD interface. We have this with emma (clustalw) and
> eprimer3 (primer3) but they gather up the oprions and make an internal
> system call. The idea was to run something like 'acdc' (nothing more than
> an embInit call) that simply runs through the ACD interface and then starts
> up a program. For blast this means renaming command line options, and it
> stalled a little on how to specify the new command line ... but really that
> just needs a simple specification and a simple parser. This application
> even had a name: emboss (so you could run 'emboss blastp' for example).

An easy way to integrate applications under EMBOSS is certainly welcome.
Parsing the ACD file and writing a command line is however not enough. It should 
be possible to take sequences and other data in EMBOSS style and pass them over 
in the appropriate format to the application.

	Guy Bottu