johnsolk / blastkit

An intentionally very simple and somewhat programmable BLAST Web server.

C. Titus Brown [email protected]

Copyright: 2013, Michigan State University. License: BSD

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Requirements:

• Python 2.x, x >= 5.
• screed
• jinja2

Suggested additional packages:

• virtualenv

Installation:

• make a new virtualenv:

    python -m virtualenv env
  

• activate virtualenv and install screed and jinja2

    . env/bin/activate
    pip install git+https://github.com/ged-lab/screed.git
    pip install jinja2
  

Configure:

• point #! at top of www/*.cgi at the virtualenv python

• edit www/_mypath.py to point to the right lib/ directory

• edit lib/blastkit_config.py to contain the right paths.

• create www/files & chmod appropriately:

    mkdir www/files
    chmod a+rwxt www/files
  

• configure blastall location

• check databases for indexing.