NOBLAST and JAMBLAST: New Options for BLAST and a Java Application Manager for BLAST results

Bioinformatics. 2009 Mar 15;25(6):824-6. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp067. Epub 2009 Jan 29.

Abstract

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.

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Internet
  • Programming Languages
  • Sequence Alignment / methods*
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods
  • Software*