---------------------------------------- TwinBLAST - View 2 BLAST reports at once ---------------------------------------- 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. ------------ Tutorial ------------ 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/ ------------ Requirements ------------ 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