Add Blast API

[Fohlen]

Hey there. I've ported the Blast API as a rudimentary example here, ncbi-lib.
I've seen it is missing in this great NCBI library so I'd be willing to provide some help and source code to add a more feature-rich version to bionode

What do you guys think?

[thejmazz]

Hi @Fohlen, have you seen bionode-blast?

Looks like you already encountered some of the inconveniences of the Blast API yourself :)

Perhaps take a look at bionode-blast and see if there are any differences between your approach and ours? (I actually uncompressed JSON instead of parsing XML - forget whether or not there was a real reason for doing that). Perhaps eventually your Stdlib function would just declare params and pass them through to a bionode module?

Cheers!

[Fohlen]

Hi @thejmazz
I probably didn't see the module, because it is not included in the docs yet!
I used XML there because the JSON2 module will create an archive to download, whereas the XML API makes it available directly.

Probably I could enhance the current bionode-blast utility 👍