That's exactly what I would want to eventually do, tho I really haven't given it much thought! I don't have anything you can test with tho as the only stuff I have will give you real results and I can't let you use that I'm afraid! Still not had a chance to play with the portal - I promise I will do shortly - workflows nearly complete! With all that in mind is it work us getting together in the near future to bring each other up to speed with everything??? Maybe once you return?? I'll try to dig out our mails and forward tyhem on - I don't think I deleated them! Take care Hannah

>> The following is not urgent, as I'm off on holiday for a couple of
>> weeks from thursday.
>>
>> So, as you know, I've had my first attempt at implementing one of your
>> workflows in a web portal. The first implementation is very simple.
>> You provide a input sequence, and optionally some old blast results, a
>> species name and a chromosome number. The workflow runs, and you are
>> provided with output consists of a number of text boxes, each
>> containing text from one output of the workflow (eg simple, genbank,
>> comparison etc)
>>
>> Now I'm not sure that an interface that works like this properly
>> captures how you'd use the workflow. I'm trying to think how to
>> explain what I mean ... as far as I understand it, you are using your
>> workflows to build up a sequence by starting with one sequence, and
>> blasting for other overlapping sequences, and glueing them on to your
>> original sequence. Let me know if you've got that wrong. So, I coudl
>> imagine that you might use the workflow by starting with a sequnce,
>> running the workflow to find another sequence, glueing this sequence
>> to the original, then starting again repeating the same process with
>> the new, longer sequence. So, starting from an original sequence,
>> you'd run your workflow several times (and maybe some other workflow?)
>> building up a longer and longer sequence. If I've got the above right,
>> I'm sure you could provide a better interface which is specialised to
>> perform this process, rather than expecting a user to perform all of
>> the stages themselves.
>>
>> Again, assuming this is right, I was wondering if you could provide me
>> with an example of running the whole process. eg an input file, then
>> instructions something like "run the workflow using this input, take
>> input x from the workflow, run the workflow on this again" . But, no
>> rush, as I'm not going to be around for a while.
>>
>> Finally, I was wondering if you happen to have kept the emails that
>> we'd exchanged over the last couple of months. I didn't take notes
>> from them properly as I'd just left them in my inbox and thought I
>> could refer to them there, but our email server crashed recently and
>> wiped them all out. If you have still got them, could you forward them
>> to me please?
>>
>> Stef