Multi-query sequence BLAST output examination with MuSeqBox.
CONCLUSIONS
MuSeqBox is a program to parse BLAST output and store attributes of BLAST hits in tabular form. The user can apply a number of selection criteria to filter out hits with particular attributes. MuSeqBox provides a powerful annotation tool for large sets of query sequences that are simultaneously compared against a database with any of the standard stand-alone or network-client BLAST programs. We discuss such application to the problem of annotation and analysis of EST collections.


BACKGROUND
The program was written in standard C++ and is freely available to noncommercial users by request from the authors. The program is also available over the web at http://bioinformatics.iastate.edu/bioinformatics2go/mb/MuSeqBox.html.
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Department of Zoology and Genetics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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D017398:Alternative Splicing; D019295:Computational Biology; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D017421:Sequence Analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012984:Software; D003313:Zea mays / Q000235:genetics