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
independantly 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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Requirements
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TwinBlast uses HTML and Javascript and should work in all modern web-browsers.

Installation of TwinBlast server requires the following packages be installed:

Apache
ExtJS

Perl Modules:

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