BLAST: a more efficient report with usability improvements

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Authors

Grzegorz M. Boratyn · National Institutes of Health

Christiam Camacho · National Center for Biotechnology Information

P. S. Cooper · National Center for Biotechnology Information

George Coulouris · National Institutes of Health

Amelia C. Fong · National Center for Biotechnology Information

Ning Ma · National Center for Biotechnology Information

Thomas Madden

Abstract

The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) website at the National Center for Biotechnology (NCBI) is an important resource for searching and aligning sequences. A new BLAST report allows faster loading of alignments, adds navigation aids, allows easy downloading of subject sequences and reports and has improved usability. Here, we describe these improvements to the BLAST report, discuss design decisions, describe other improvements to the search page and database documentation and outline plans for future development. The NCBI BLAST URL is http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

Topics & Keywords

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Gene expression and cancer classification Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Publication Details

Published in: Nucleic Acids Research

Volume 41, Issue W1, pp. W29-W33

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt282

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