The document discusses creating a pipeline for EST analysis by assembling EST reads into contigs, detecting SNPs, and displaying results online. Several tools are proposed, including MIRA for assembly but it is noted to be slow, poorly documented, and buggy. The pipeline will parse outputs from tools like BLAST, PFAM, and ORF prediction into a structured database. It has created the pipeline, started analyzing data and filling the database, and next steps are to wait for MIRA and add an SNP parser.