BLASTGrabber: a bioinformatic tool for visualization, analysis and sequence selection of massive BLAST data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advances in sequencing efficiency have vastly increased the sizes of biological sequence databases, including many thousands of genome-sequenced species. The BLAST algorithm remains the main search engine for retrieving sequence information, and must consequently handle data on an unprecedented scale. This has been possible due to high-performance computers and parallel processing. However, the raw BLAST output from contemporary searches involving thousands of queries becomes ill-suited for direct human processing. Few programs attempt to directly visualize and interpret BLAST output; those that do often provide a mere basic structuring of BLAST data.

Results

Here we present a bioinformatics application named BLASTGrabber suitable for high-throughput sequencing an

SUBMITTER: Neumann RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4062517 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature