On Monday 28th March 2011 the WSWUBlast service was decommissioned and replaced by the following services:

• WU-BLAST (REST)
• WU-BLAST (SOAP)

The service documentation and clients below are historical and provided solely for reference purposes.

WU-BLAST (Washington University Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) Version 2.0 is used to compare a sequence with those contained in nucleotide and protein databases by aligning the sequence with previously characterized genes. The emphasis of this tool is to find regions of sequence similarity, which will yield functional and evolutionary clues about the structure and function of this novel sequence. Regions of similarity detected via this type of alignment tool can be either local, where the region of similarity is based in 1 location, or global, where regions of similarity can be detected across otherwise unrelated genetic code.

For more information about this tool see:

• WU-BLAST website

Web service registry entries:

• BioCatalogue
• seekda!

Note: for new development it is recommended that the Document/literal SOAP service is used instead of the RPC/encoded SOAP service described here.

Sample clients are provided for a number of programming languages. For details of how to use these clients, download the client and run the program without any arguments.

For further details see WSWUBlast Clients.

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/wsdl/WSWUBlast.wsdl

Get the list of available database names for use in the inputParams structure.

Arguments: none

Returns: an array of outData objects describing the available options.

Get the list of available low complexity sequence filter names for use in the inputParams structure.

Arguments: none

Returns: an array of outData objects describing the available options.

Get the list of available scoring matrix names for use in the inputParams structure.

Arguments: none

Returns: an array of outData objects describing the available options.

Get the list of available program names for use in the inputParams structure.

Arguments: none

Returns: an array of outData objects describing the available options.

Get the list of available search sensitivity option values for use in the inputParams structure.

Arguments: none

Returns: an array of outData objects describing the available options.

Get the list of available hit sort names for use in the inputParams structure.

Arguments: none

Returns: an array of outData objects describing the available options.

Get the list of available statistical model names for use in the inputParams structure.

Arguments: none

Returns: an array of outData objects describing the available options.

Get the list of available XML format names for use in the inputParams structure.

Arguments: none

Returns: an array of outData objects describing the available options.

Submits a WU-BLAST job to the service.

Arguments:

• params an instance of the inputParams data structure.
• content a list of data data structures describing the query sequence data.

Returns: a string containing the job ID (jobid).

Get the entry IDs of the hits in the BLAST output.

Arguments:

• jobid the job identifier specifying the job to get the IDs from.

Returns: a string array of entry IDs.

Deprecated: use runWUBlast(params, content) instead.

Submits a blastp (protein vs. protein) search using the default parameters.

Arguments:

• database the name of the database to search. See databases.
• sequence the query sequence as a string.
• email the user's e-mail address.

Returns: a string containing the job ID (jobid).

Deprecated: use runWUBlast(params, content) instead.

Submits a blastn (nucleotide vs. nucleotide) search using the default parameters.

Arguments:

• database the name of the database to search. See databases.
• sequence the query sequence as a string.
• email the user's e-mail address.

Returns: a string containing the job ID (jobid).

Deprecated: use poll(jobid, type) instead.

Get the text BLAST report as a string.

Arguments:

• jobid the job identifier specifying the job to get the IDs from.

Returns: a string containing the BLAST output.

Deprecated: use poll(jobid, type) instead.

Get the XML BLAST report as a string.

Arguments:

• jobid the job identifier specifying the job to get the IDs from.

Returns: a string containing the BLAST XML output.

Get the status of a job.

Arguments:

• jobid the job identifier of the job to check status of.

Returns: a string indicating the status of the job. Current values are:

• DONE: job has finished, and the results can then be retrieved.
• ERROR: the job failed or no results where found
• NOT_FOUND: the job id is no longer available (job results are deleted after 24 h)
• PENDING: the job is in a queue waiting processing
• RUNNING: the job is currently being processed

Get details of the result types available.

Arguments:

• jobid the job identifier of the job to get result types for.

Returns: an array of WSFile structures describing the available result types for the job.

Wait until the job has finished and get the specified type of result data.

Arguments:

• jobid the job identifier of the job to get result from.
• type a string specifying the type of result to retrieve. See getResults(jobid) and WSFile for details of how to obtain valid values.

Returns: a base64 encoded string containing the result data. Depending on the SOAP library and programming language used the result may be returned in decoded form.

Deprecated: use runWUBlast(params, content) instead.

Deprecated: use poll(jobid, type) instead.

Structure containing option descriptions for a parameter.

Structure containing the input data for the job

For example to specify an input sequence in Java:

Data inSeq = new Data();
inSeq.setType = "sequence";
inSeq.setContent = ">TestSequence\nASAMPLESEQ\n";

A structure containing the parameters required to run the job.

Structure describing a result type. Returned by the getResults(jobid) method.

If you have any questions or comments, or you plan to use this service as part of a course or for a high number of submissions, please contact us EBI Support.