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The Personal Sequence Database: a suite of tools to create and maintain web-accessible sequence databases.

Scott A Givan¹, Christopher M Sullivan, James C Carrington

¹Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA. givans@cgrb.oregonstate.edu

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The Personal Sequence Database (PSD) allows scientists to easily create and manage private or public web-accessible molecular sequence databases. It simplifies data sharing and tracks new sequence similarities in public databases.

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Area of Science:

Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology
Genomics

Background:

Large molecular sequence databases are essential for bioscience research.
Maintaining smaller, project-specific sequence databases is beneficial but challenging for bench scientists.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce the Personal Sequence Database (PSD) tool suite.
To enable scientists to create and manage personal web-accessible sequence databases.

Main Methods:

The PSD suite provides web-based tools for database creation and management.
Users can define private or public sequence groups.
Sequence groups support downloading, browsing, keyword searching, and BLAST similarity searches.

Main Results:

The PSD facilitates the creation and maintenance of small- to medium-sized sequence databases.
Users can manage private data or publish sequence groups for collaborators.
The BLASTAgent feature monitors public databases for sequence similarity updates.

Conclusions:

The PSD offers unique resources for managing sequence data and BLAST results.
It enhances data sharing among colleagues, collaborators, and the public.
The PSD is publicly available and hosted by the authors.