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********************************* Furnace *********************************
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<http://furnace.googlecode.com/>
* What is Furnace? *
Furnace is a grid-enabled version of NCBI BLAST [1].
* Distribution Contents *
The distribution contains the following contents:
o README - This readme file.
o LICENCE - Furnace licence file.
o NOTICE - Licence notices for libraries used in Furnace.
o RELEASE-NOTES - Release notes for this & previous releases.
o lib/ - Libraries required by Furnace at runtime, see below for details.
* Documentation *
Documentation can be found at: http://furnace.googlecode.com/.
* Installation *
Note. Furnace requires a Unix or Unix-like operating system, and may not work
on non-Unix systems.
1. Downlaod and install BLAST [1] on each grid node.
2. Configure BLAST with the database:
1. Unzip etc/database/human3UTR.zip
2. $ /opt/blast/bin/formatdb -i human3UTR.fas -p F -o T
3. $ cp etc/database/human3UTR.fas* /opt/blast/data/
2. Download and install GridGain [2] on each grid node.
3. Start GridGain:
$ /opt/gridgain/bin/gridgain.sh
4. Run it...
$ ./build.sh sequence
* Source *
Source code is available within the obi-<version>-src.jar. Complete source is
available at: http://furnace.googlecode.com/
* Contributions *
Developers
o Tom Adams
Thanks to the work done on Scala, Scalaz and BLAST.
* References *
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/download.shtml
[2] http://gridgain.com/downloads.html