title: UniBLAST: a system to filter, cluster, and display BLAST results and assign unique gene annotation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  More and more often, a gene is epitomized by a large number of sequences in GenBank. This high redundancy makes it very difficult to identify a unique best match for a query sequence from its BLAST results. We developed a novel program UniBLAST that filters out uninformative hits, clusters the redundant hits, groups the hits by LocusLink, and graphically displays the results. We also implemented a scoring function in UniBLAST to assign a unique gene name to a query sequence. UniBLAST significantly increases the efficiency of gene annotation.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The program is available at http://south.genomics.org.cn/software/uniblast/index.html
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  uniblast@genomics.org.cn; wei@nexusgenomics.com
authors.affiliation: Institute of Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Guyang Matthew
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Liping
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wei
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003626:Data Display; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D016678:Genome; D015894:Genome, Human; D018745:Genome, Plant; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface