1) The document describes steps in a bioinformatics analysis pipeline that uses BLAST and CLUSTALW to perform sequence alignment and clustering on a query protein sequence from Homo sapiens (hsa:6469).
2) Each step is contained in a separate Ruby script (step10.rb through step60.rb) that retrieves data through REST/SOAP calls and passes output through text files.
3) The final step performs a multiple sequence alignment of BLAST hits passing the E-value threshold using CLUSTALW through a SOAP call and outputs the result.