This page lists some of the informatics behind the work. The code presented here is open source, which allows scientific accountability of the Robot Scientist.
For BLAST searches we used:
from ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/ (we downloaded these on 2nd Oct 2006) and the 2.2.15 version of blast from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/download.shtml (NOT netblast or wwwblast).
The KEGG data that was used to search for ORFs in other organisms.
Contact Ken Whelan at Aberystwyth for further information on this code.