[Bioclusters] Request for discussions-How to build a biocluster Part 1 (the objectives)

[Sylvain Foisy]

Hi to all,

I am sending this e-mail so that other people besides me get the 
necessary insights into building a biocluster. I have divided my 
questions in multiple posts so that any input for specific point can be 
address in replying to the appropriate post. I am hoping to get some 
info that could than be use to create a web site that could help people 
build their own biocluster.

Our present goal is to build a reasonably fast, easily expendable and 
affordable local BLAST server. We need it to be accessible both via a 
web page and a command-line interface (for batch jobs). We want it to 
get the daily updates from GenBank as well as use user-created 
databases. We might also extend its use to RNA folding and AI-based gene 
identification.

It is also to be the central core of some research projects, including 
the development of administrative tools for cluster management and 
sequence analysis algorithms.

More to come...

Sylvain