Mass blaster V1.0 - a perl gui tool for mass sequence blast and gene prediction

Abstract

Sequence similarity search is the principle technique, in sequence analysis, adapted for understanding the biological significance of a sequence. Of the various sequence similarity search tool, BLAST is the widely and commonly used tool for local alignment search. Even though several services like NCBI-BLAST, EBI-BLAST, and GENEBEE BLAST has the facility to perform a routine basic local alignment search for the given protein or nucleotide sequence, none of the service has equipped with mass sequence submission. To overcome this, we developed MASS BLASTER V1.0, which allows the user to submit multiple sequences at-a-time to the services like NCBI-Protein BLAST, NCBI-Nucleotide BLAST, GENEBEE BLAST, RNA NON-CODING BLAST, COGNITOR, GENEMARK HMM, and GLIMMER and saves the corresponding results to the user system without human interference. © 2010 Saravanan V.