Easy-Web-BLAST

Introduction

Easy-Web-BLAST (EWB) is a single CGI script which can be deployed by a user to make a custom BLAST web page on a Unix server. It's key features are:

• one simple configuration file
• automatically detects all the installed BLAST databases
• automagically chooses the correct BLAST tool to use (blastp, tblastn, ...)
• uses the latest BLAST+ toolkit

Installation

There are a few different ways in which EWB can be installed. Some choices require root access to your server, and some can be done purely at the user level.

Apache2

cd $HOME/public_html
tar zxvf easy-web-blast.tar.gz
mv easy-web-blast myname

Then go to: http://example.com/~user/myname/

Python Server

FIXME

Configuration

You must edit the blast.conf file to set up the BLAST server:

• exe_path
  • Folder containing the BLAST+ binaries
• db_path
  • Folder containing the formatted BLAST indices
• admin_name
  • Name of person responsible for your web site
• admin_email
  • Their email address
• name
  • Title of the web page eg. "John's Parasite BLAST page"
• logo
  • An image to display eg. the institute logo. Can be a file in the EWB folder, or a global URL.

FAQ

• How do I restrict which databases in the folder are visible?
  • You can use symlinks to make a virtual database folder. First make a folder in the EWB folder called "db" and inside DB make symlinks to the indices on your server. Remember to change the db_path variable in blast.conf to be "./db" now instead.

Authors

• Torsten Seemann torsten.seemann@monash.edu
• David Powell david.powell@monash.edu

Reference

https://github.com/Victorian-Bioinformatics-Consortium/easy-web-blast