BlasterJS: A novel interactive JavaScript visualisation component for BLAST alignment results.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The wide range of potential applications has made the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) a ubiquitous tool in the field of Molecular Biology. Within this context, it is increasingly appealing to embed BLAST services within larger Web applications.

Results

This work introduces BlasterJS viewer, a new JavaScript library for the lightweight development of Web-based applications supporting the visualisation of BLAST outputs. BlasterJS detaches from similar data viewers by focusing on the visual and interactive display of sequence similarity results and being completely independent of BLAST services. BlasterJS is compatible with the text outputs generated by the BLAST family of programs, namely BLASTp, BLASTn, BLASTx, tBLASTn, and tBLASTx, and works in all major

SUBMITTER: Blanco-Miguez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6177166 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature