GUI for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST)

Allows users to perform NCBI BLAST on local machine, graphically.

Description

NCBI has an implementation of BLAST algorithm on their website at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST, which is good if you want to query short DNA or protein sequence against various sequence databases. The problem arises when large sequences need to be BLAST'ed against a sequence database or against each other. The results of such queries can take hours!

Why wait! This GUI downloads BLAST executables to your local computer and allows you to create your own sequence databases that can be queried by a single DNA or protein sequence. You can even BLAST two DNA sequences against each other, in seconds, not minutes or hours!

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1)
• Other requirements: This will work on Windows platforms only, but the m-code can be modified to work with linux platforms (this is due to the BLAST executables downloaded, which are platform specific)

[Tony Gladvin George]

Good GUI example for interfacing Matlab with windows exe. But the alignment (searching) math stuff is completely done by NCBI executables.

[J Ahmed]

I can't get the GUI to even *open* the fasta files yet alone blast them. The download Blast link is outdated.

[J Ahmed]

I withdraw my complaints. It worked. Still won't download from blast ftp