[Biophp-dev] New question from the Newbie

[Nico Stuurman]

> The local BLAST module is a frontend for running a local copy of the BLAST
> database search.  It works for me, and SHOULD work for Windows as well...
> but the only person who's REPORTED using it on Windows has been having
> odd problems getting it to work that I've not been able to track down.
> (If anyone else here runs Windows and has an interest in playing with
> the local BLAST frontend to help figure out what's going on, please let
> me know...) (It LOOKS like the frontend is doing what it should be, 
> but the BLASTALL.EXE windows program isn't returning any data in the 
> output file...)

I guess I meant to ask in which file this is.  I can not find anything
that looks like a local BLAST interface in the cvs (no doubt my
oversight).  
Is it in biophp/Sean/semi-official?  
Shall we move it to biophp/genephp/interfaces? 
Do we have a common scheme to build interfaces to external programs (I
simply made a function with as parameters the path to the application
and an array containing all variables to be fed to the application as an
array with key-value pairs, the function also returns an array with
key-value pairs generated by the app).


Best,  

Nico