NCBI BLAST: a better web interface
Open Access
- 19 May 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 36 (Web erver), W5-W9
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkn201
Abstract
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a sequence similarity search program. The public interface of BLAST, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast, at the NCBI website has recently been reengineered to improve usability and performance. Key new features include simplified search forms, improved navigation, a list of recent BLAST results, saved search strategies and a documentation directory. Here, we describe the BLAST web application's new features, explain design decisions and outline plans for future improvement.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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