Forum: Sequenceserver: Easily Deploy A Custom, User-Friendly Blast Webserver

Executive Summary: SequenceServer lets you rapidly set up a custom BLAST+ server with an intuitive user interface for use locally or over the web.Why we created it: We were frustrated with:

1. too many colleagues asking: can you BLAST this for me?
2. installing NCBI's wwwblast is too complicated. And the user interface is unnecessarily counter-intuitive.

So we created something better that tries to overcome both hurdles. We try to make it real easy to install, and idiot-proof for users (still some progress to be made but we're on the right track!). Complete overview.Installation: Takes 5 minutes if you already have BLAST+ installed and custom databases:

1. gem install sequenceserver
2. create a ~/.sequenceserver.conf file (example here)
3. sequenceserver launches the server on http://localhost:4567/

Demo Servers: We know it is deployed in >20 institutions. Our deployment is