[Gramene] looking for BLAT

[Will Spooner]

On 24 Aug 2009, at 14:38, Ken Youens-Clark wrote:

> On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Mary Mangan wrote:
>
>> Hey folks—
>>
>> I’m updating the Gramene tutorial.  We had blastview in the old  
>> version, and I see now that the link at the top says BLAST/BLAT.   
>> But I can’t seem to find BLAT.
>>
>> Am I looking in the right place?  I’ve been here http://gramene.org/Multi/blastview 
>>  and tried some configuration but I can’t seem to locate it, DNA or  
>> peptide.
>>
>> BTW: when I clicked the Online Help button from that page I get an  
>> error message at Ensembl. http://screencast.com/t/qFHqbsnAryq  I  
>> can see where BLAT is at Ensembl if I go directly there.
>>
>> Thanks for any guidance.   If it isn’t supposed to be there, that’s  
>> fine—I’ll just downplay that in the tutorial.  But I don’t want to  
>> miss it if I should have it in.
>>
>> Oh: when is the next release scheduled?   Should I be taking screen  
>> shots at this point or should I hold off a bit?  I see in the past  
>> September is possible.
>>
>> Mary
>
>
> Mary,
>
> I see that our BLAST server is up at the following URL:
>
> 	http://www.gramene.org/multi/blastview
>
> Our 30th release is scheduled for mid-September.
>

It's probably also worth mentioning that Gramene does not currently  
offer a BLAT service. The references to BLAT are a legacy of our reuse  
of the Ensembl code, and should be removed. I'll take a look at  
removing these for our release in September.

Will


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