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Novel Sequence Discovery by Subtractive Genomics
Published on: January 25, 2019
BlastXtract--a new way of exploring translated searches
Marcus J Claesson1, Douwe van Sinderen
1Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and Department of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland. mclaesson@bioinfo.ucc.ie
Summary:
Searches of translated, unannotated genomic DNA sequences against protein databases is a useful early-stage method for discovering protein homologues encoded by the sequence, but generates huge amounts of output data that quickly become impregnable. BlastXtract is a web-based tool for managing and visualizing results from large translated BLAST and FastA searches. It combines the speed and storage benefits of relational database management systems with an easy-to-use graphical navigation map, and greatly facilitates the early exploration of genomic sequence.
Availability:
BlastXtract can be downloaded from http://bioinfo.ucc.ie/blastxtract/.
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