Introduction

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a sequence similarity search program. The public interface of BLAST, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast, at the NCBI website has recently been reengineered to improve usability and performance. Key new features include simplified search forms, improved navigation, a list of recent BLAST results, saved search strategies and a documentation directory. Here, we describe the BLAST web application's new features, explain design decisions and outline plans for future improvement.

Publications

  1. NCBI BLAST: a better web interface.
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    Johnson M, Zaretskaya I, Raytselis Y, Merezhuk Y, McGinnis S, Madden TL, 2008-07-01 - Nucleic acids research
  2. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs.
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    Altschul SF, Madden TL, Schäffer AA, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Miller W, Lipman DJ, 1997-09-01 - Nucleic acids research
  3. Basic local alignment search tool.
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    Altschul SF, Gish W, Miller W, Myers EW, Lipman DJ, 1990-10-01 - Journal of molecular biology
  4. BLAST+: architecture and applications.
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    Camacho C, Coulouris G, Avagyan V, Ma N, Papadopoulos J, Bealer K, Madden TL, 2009-01-01 - BMC bioinformatics

Credits

  1. Mark Johnson
    Developer

  2. Irena Zaretskaya
    Developer

  3. Yan Raytselis
    Developer

  4. Yuri Merezhuk
    Developer

  5. Scott McGinnis
    Developer

  6. Thomas L Madden
    Investigator

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Summary
AccessionBT006395
Tool TypeApplication
Category
PlatformsLinux/Unix
TechnologiesC, C++
User InterfaceTerminal Command Line
Download Count0
Submitted ByThomas L Madden