Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Richard, hello Frank, >>, nothing of great usefulness > This depends on how you read the original request. What was asked for on > some meta level is the supported update of standard databases in > bioinformatics. This implies the definition of respective locations > and a naming scheme for the downloaded files that come in so many > different formats. We do not have that.
I also had this thought last evening. > If we had this, though, all the other packages like EMBOSS, BioPerl or blast > could be rendered much more powerful by reducing overhead for the > administrators. Maybe we want a file in /etc that defines the location > of the databases which may be anywhere in the local network or a > a web service for the retrieval of individual entries which would then not be > usable for search tools. Or are there already web services that do blast > searches? Probably. On the web there are some publically available, http://www.ebi.ac.uk/blast2/ http://www.expasy.org/cgi-bin/BLASTEMBnet-CH.pl But I do not know whether the web interface part is free software, or whether it is available at all (and not just a local "hack"). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
