gquinn (gquinn at nick.med.usf.edu) wrote:
: I heard from a few sources (one direct from GCG) that they are planning
: to make (have already made?) a TCP/IP client/server setup. My
: concerns over this are
: 1) I will have died of old age before this becomes available
: 2) It will be tied into some peculiar licensing system they will
: develop.
There is the BLAST client in GCG Version 8 which approaches NCBI's BLAST
server to run searches on TCP/IP basis as client/server. We run FASTA
and BLAST from within GCG on our own server network in Europe (EMBnet
nodes) via HASSLE since more than two years; and a SRS line browser
(SRS from Thure Etzold) is coming. Yes, there is interest and activity
from both GCG and GCG-conformant suppliers to have client/server setups.
However, up to now, GCG-code was in the *CLIENT*, i.e. it is required
to have the GCG package installed where the *CLIENT* runs. To make a
Personal Computer run a Client is another story.
Regards
Reinhard
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