Having a BLAST: Analyzing Gene Sequence Data with BlastQuest

نویسندگان

  • William G. Farmerie
  • Joachim Hammer
  • Li Liu
  • Markus Schneider
چکیده

An essential problem for the biologist is the processing and evaluation of BLAST query results. We advocate the deployment of database technology and describe a user-driven tool, called BlastQuest. BlastQuest provides interactive, Web-enabled query, analysis, and visualization facilities beyond what is possible by current BLAST interfaces. Specifically, the BLAST results are extracted, structured, and stored persistently in a relational database to support a series of built-in analysis operations that can be used to select, filter, and order data from multiple BLAST results efficiently and without referring to the original result files. In addition, users have the option to interact with BLAST results through a forms-based interface.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003