transalignws

Transalign as a web service

• Mentor: Ketil (and?)
• Umbrella: OBF?

Motivation

Transalign currently works as a standalone program, parsing BLAST results. Thanks to Florian Eggenhofer, we now have a library BlastHTTP that can run Blast from within Haskell via a web services API.

This could fairly easily be combined with transalign to provide a tool that, given an input sequence, does the necessary BLAST searches on NCBI's servers, and outputs the transitive alignment. This would make transalign a lot more available and useful.

Subtasks

• integration with NCBI web service
• web front end