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Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on July 26, 2005
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti598
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© The Author (2005). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org
Received April 28, 2005
Revised June 28, 2005
Accepted July 24, 2005

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BlastXtract - a new way of exploring translated searches

Marcus Claesson 1* and Douwe van Sinderen 1

1 Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and Department of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Marcus Claesson, E-mail: mclaesson{at}bioinfo.ucc.ie


  Abstract

Summary: Searches of translated, un-annotated genomic DNA sequences against protein databases is a useful early-stage method for discovering protein homologues encoded by the sequence, but generates huge amounts of output data that quickly becomes impregnable. BlastXtract is a web-based tool for managing and visualizing results from large translated BLAST and FastA searches. It combines the speed and storage benefits of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) with an easy-to-use graphical navigation map, and greatly facilitates the early exploration of genomic sequence.

Availability: BlastXtract can be downloaded from http://bioinfo.ucc.ie/blastXtract/.


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