Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on January 29, 2009
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp067
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NOBLAST and JAMBLAST: New Options for BLAST and a Java Application Manager for BLAST results
1Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion 71003 and 2Division of Medical Sciences, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion 71110, Crete, Greece
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Jacques Lagnel, lagnel{at}her.hcmr.gr, Dr. Ioannis Iliopoulos, E-mail: ioannis{at}iti.gr
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Summary: NOBLAST (New Options for BLAST) is an open source program that provides a new user friendly tabular output format for various NCBI BLAST programs (Blastn, Blastp, Blastx, Tblastn, Tblastx, Mega BLAST and Psi BLAST) without any use of a parser and provides E-value correction in case of use of segmented BLAST database. JAMBLAST using the NOBLAST output allows the user to manage, view and filter the BLAST hits using a number of selection criteria.
Availability: A distribution package of NOBLAST and JAMBLAST including detailed installation procedure is freely available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/JAMBLAST/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/NOBLAST.
Contact: lagnel{at}her.hcmr.gr
Contact: ioannis{at}iti.gr
Associate Editor: Prof. John Quackenbush
Received on October 7, 2008; revised on January 26, 2009; accepted on January 27, 2009