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GUI for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST)

03 Mar 2005 (Updated 04 Mar 2005)

No BSD License

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

File Information
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)
Zip File Content
HTML Files	help.html
Other Files	blast.fig, blast.m, c_elegans_db, geneA.fasta, geneB.fasta

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Everyone's Tags	biotech, blast, local alignment, ncbi, pharmaceutical, protein, query, short dna
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Comments and Ratings (3)
20 Mar 2006	Tony Gladvin George	Good GUI example for interfacing Matlab with windows exe. But the alignment (searching) math stuff is completely done by NCBI executables.
22 Feb 2008	J Ahmed	I can't get the GUI to even open the fasta files yet alone blast them. The download Blast link is outdated.
22 Feb 2008	J Ahmed	I withdraw my complaints. It worked. Still won't download from blast ftp

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Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
biotech	Shailender Nagpal	22 Oct 2008 07:42:33
pharmaceutical	Shailender Nagpal	22 Oct 2008 07:42:33
blast	Shailender Nagpal	22 Oct 2008 07:42:33
local alignment	Shailender Nagpal	22 Oct 2008 07:42:33
ncbi	Shailender Nagpal	22 Oct 2008 07:42:33
short dna	Shailender Nagpal	22 Oct 2008 07:42:33
protein	Shailender Nagpal	22 Oct 2008 07:42:33
query	Shailender Nagpal	22 Oct 2008 07:42:33

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