[BiO BB] Web-based BLAST Services (addendum)

[Kravitz, Saul]

Oops...got the URL for our project wrong...  should be
http://camera.calit2.net.
We welcome registrations from the bioinformatics.org community.
 
Also, I inquired of NCBI regarding their capabilities and got the
following response from Wayne Matten at the NCBI Service Desk:

	This is impossible to say due to the variability in queries,
databases and the output generated. Our only set limit is on cpu time
(about 1 hour cumulative, over several machines). In other words, you
can only determine the practical limits of your searches by testing
them.

 
-Saul

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From: Kravitz, Saul 
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:31 PM
To: bbb at bioinformatics.org
Subject: Web-based BLAST Services


We have developed a web-based implementation of BLAST as part of the
CAMERA project (http://calit2.camera.net).  Although we realize that
there are a number of parallel implementations of BLAST,  I am
interested in the capabilities of web-based deployments of BLAST.
Specifically, there capacities as measured in terms of:
   - Maximum number of query sequences
   - Maximum total size of the query sequences
   - Maximum number or data volume of hits returned  (NCBI seems to be
500)
   - Maximum Total Search Time  (NCBI is 1 Hr)
 
In CAMERA's case, the numbers today are:
   - Maximum number of query sequences -- we've tested to 250k
   - Maximum total size of the query sequences -- we've tested to 100Mbp
   - Maximum number or data volume of hits returned  (we've tested to
several hundred thousand)
   - Maximum Total Search Time  (None so far)
 
Regards,
 
Saul Kravitz
J. Craig Venter Institute