PSI-Blast is sort of working on the NMPDR Development Site.
PSI-Blast was reported non-functional in v14. The reason had to do with the fact that the NCBI tools assume the first form on the web page is the NCBI tool's form, when in fact it was the third form when the results were loaded into an NMPDR template. All of the protein page tools use a single template, so the fix was to change that template to eschew the search and bug reporting forms normally present on every NMPDR page.
Unfortunately, the Sprout database is still loading, so this fix can't be tested directly. Instead, you must use the URL you would get if you clicked on the PSI-Blast link at the bottom of a protein page once the protein page is working. For the infamous fig|83333.1.peg.4, click here to get the desired page. Clicking on the FORMAT button from this location used to take you to a blank search results page; now it takes you to the PSI-Blast results.
My intent is to test this as soon as the load completes and then slipstream the fix into the live site. If the load is still going on tomorrow, then I will slipstream without first testing on the development site, which is scary, but required if we're to be ready for a Wednesday demo.
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