Description
SAPTF (Sequence Analysis Plugin Tools Framework) is designed as a very simple way to provide sequence analysis tools on the web. It saves all the effort of creating the actual pages and CGI scripts - all that is needed is the tool itself (which can return HTML or just plain text) and a simple XML configuration file. SAPTF will even deal with very slow long-running programs (like BLAST or ClustalW) which might make the user wonder whether anything is happening, or may need some sort of wait-page to stop the web server from timing out - SAPTF deals with this through AJAX.
As an example, we are using SAPTF in PAPS, our antibody VH/VL packing angle prediction server.
Demonstration
You can see a demonstration which runs a simple tool to calculate amino acid frequencies and shows the 'slow' and 'very slow' AJAX modes for dealing with slow long-running programs.
This page was created using this simple XML configuration file.
Licence
SAPTF is freely available for use by not-for-profit organisations. It may not be used by commercial organisations without first obtaining explicit permission from the author. It may not be distributed without the author's permission, but must be obtained from this site.
Download
SAPTF is supplied as a gzipped tar file of source code in Perl.