*********** ********************************* Furnace ********************************* *********** <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