Bioinformatics Vol. 16 no. 11 2000
Pages 1054-1055
© 2000 Oxford University Press
Applications Note |
BLAST Search Updater: a notification system for new database matches
1 Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, PO Box 3055, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
Received on April 24, 2000
; revised on June 15, 2000
; accepted on June 15, 2000
Summary: BLAST Search Updater (BSU) can help molecular biologists perform large numbers of BLAST searches routinely and screen the results for novel matches. The search result files (HTML format) and delta files (novel matches) are WWW viewable and BSU also emails users alignments of new matches.
Availability: BSU runs on UNIX machines and is freely available to academic users at http://athena.bioc.uvic.ca/genomes/. Additional figures and description are also available.
Contact: cupton{at}uvic.ca