Hi all, The following is my write up for CDL document for BLAST application based on the dialogue with Chris Smith. So far, I guess we will translate JSDL document to CDL document or extract necessary information from JSDL document and put them into CDL document. However JSDL document does not have a couple of information we need for CDL. (1) Application binary source location and its archive format. (2) File permission on the target server. We can add such necessary information into the JSDL document as extensions. For (2), we can assume default value (e.g. 755). Another possibility is we expect client tooling produce both JSDL document and CDL document at the same time. Advantage of this option is the tooling can guarantee consistency between JSDL document and CDL document. Chris and I agree this is reasonable scenario as our first step. Regarding to BLAST database, we expect client must run prep-job to format BLAST database and BLAST job should mount such formatted database before BLAST run. Formatted database should be reside e.g. /db/ncbiblast/est which should be mounted before BLAST run. The attached files are revised JSDL and CDL documents for review. I value your feedback. -- Hiro Kishimoto