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Discussions about modules that run BLAST

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Some discussion about changing how the RemoteBlast module behaves. If you have feedback respond to Roger's post. Also see these posts Chris Field's post (1) Chris Field's post (2) Roger volunteering to take on maintenance

media wiki upgraded

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Upgraded to mediawiki 1.5.2 -- all seems to be working, but do notify us if it isn't.

sort order for Bio::Tree::Node each_Descendent

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

I've updated the code for Bio::Tree::Node so that each_Descendent can return the nodes in alphabetical order. This is achieved by pasing in the string 'alpha' (for alphabetical) or 'revalpha' (for reverse alphabetical). For internal nodes, they are sorted in order of the min or max (alphabetically) node in ...

Getting BlastXML using RemoteBlast

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

According to NCBI - BlastXML (and ASN.1) is the only guaranteed always parseable report format that is provided by their web CGI script. Here is some code to specify how the data should be requested (and perhaps this will become the default). (more...)