NodeJS API wrapping the NCBI BLAST Common URL API. WIP.

Goals are to

• provide a (typed) JS API that makes it simpler to work NCBI BLAST
  • probably Flow since it makes clean JS after flow-remove-types
  • question: how to support Flow and TS type libraries/definitions?
• interporates well with other bionode modules: streams compatible (e.g. object stream of matches)
• CLI API
• express REST server wrapping JS API to provide a truly REST interface
• once finalized, illustrate interoperability with webapp/Electron/BioJS visualization modules
  • e.g. Electron BLAST app that automatically stores results locally

TODO

• Only allow some params conditonal on other params
  • e.g. description only allowed when report is Text/HTML
• Param validation
• Param description
• Param defaults
• Param defaults conditional on other params
  • e.g. if program is blastp or blastn, change word size
• Configurable param defaults
• Response schema
• Typed params
• Typed response
• RAML/Swagger spec REST API, local wrapper server