README

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TwinBLAST - View 2 BLAST reports at once
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TwinBLAST is a web-based tool for viewing 2 BLAST reports simultaneously
side-by-side. It uses ExtJS (www.sencha.com/products/extjs/) to provide 2
independently scrollable panels. BioPerl (www.bioperl.org) is used to index
raw BLAST reports and Bio::Graphics is used to draw pictograms of the BLAST
hits.

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  Tutorial
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A walkthrough of how to set up an instance of TwinBLAST using a virtual machine
as well as how to set it up from scratch can be found here http://igs.github.io/twinblast/ 

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Requirements
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TwinBLAST uses HTML and Javascript and should work in all modern web browsers.

Installation of the TwinBLAST server requires the following packages:

Apache
ExtJS
MySQL

Perl Modules:

BioPerl
CGI
Tie::File
File::Basename
Digest::MD5
URI::Escape
JSON
POSIX
Bio::Graphics
Config::IniFiles
File::Slurp