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Alkahest NuclearBLAST : a user-friendly BLAST management and analysis system.

Stephen E Diener1, Thomas D Houfek, Sam E Kalat

  • 1Fungal Genomics Laboratory, Center for Integrated Fungal Research, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA. sediener@unity.ncsu.edu

BMC Bioinformatics
|June 17, 2005
PubMed
Summary

NuclearBLAST offers a free, user-friendly system for biologists to store, manage, and analyze BLAST results. This tool simplifies data mining for high-throughput sequencing data.

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Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Genomics
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • High-throughput sequencing is now accessible to individual researchers.
  • Limited user-friendly tools exist for storing and analyzing BLAST results.
  • Biologists need efficient solutions for managing large-scale sequencing data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce NuclearBLAST, a novel system for batch BLAST analysis, storage, and management.
  • To provide biologists with an accessible platform for data mining sequencing results.

Main Methods:

  • NuclearBLAST is a web-based wrapper for NCBI BLAST.
  • It utilizes a MySQL database for storing BLAST results.
  • Includes a request wizard, result viewing, and data mining utilities.

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Main Results:

  • NuclearBLAST offers a user-friendly web interface for BLAST analysis.
  • Stores results in a MySQL database for advanced data mining.
  • Facilitates data export, Gene Ontology assignment, and best hit analysis.

Conclusions:

  • NuclearBLAST makes managing and mining large sets of BLAST analyses tractable for biologists.
  • Provides a user-friendly interface for requesting, viewing, and mining BLAST results.