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Blast Quantification Using Hopkinson Pressure Bars

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

Aitor Blanco-Míguez^1,2,3, Florentino Fdez-Riverola^1,2,4, Borja Sánchez²

¹ESEI - Department of Computer Science, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain.

|October 10, 2018

Summary

This new JavaScript library, BlasterJS, offers a lightweight solution for visualizing Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) outputs in web applications. It provides interactive sequence similarity results independently of BLAST services.

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Area of Science:

Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Molecular Biology

Background:

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a widely used tool in molecular biology.
There is a growing need to integrate BLAST services into larger web applications.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce BlasterJS viewer, a JavaScript library for developing web applications.
Enable lightweight visualization of BLAST outputs.
Facilitate seamless integration of visual and interactive representations of BLAST results.

Main Methods:

Developed a new JavaScript library named BlasterJS.
Ensured compatibility with text outputs from various BLAST programs (BLASTp, BLASTn, BLASTx, tBLASTn, tBLASTx).
Designed BlasterJS to be independent of specific BLAST services.

Main Results:

BlasterJS focuses on visual and interactive display of sequence similarity results.
The library is compatible with all major web browsers.
BlasterJS is available via the EBI's BioJS registry, enhancing its applicability.

Conclusions:

BlasterJS simplifies the integration of visual and interactive BLAST output representations into web applications.
The library supports sequence similarity searches.
BlasterJS is freely accessible for use in bioinformatics applications.